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They also deny dialysis to anyone over 60 who can't pay for it on their own

Where did you hear this? Not doubting you, I just like sources.

It was something I heard years ago from a doctor. I may not be accurate timewise; it might be 65 but I am not sure. I am also not sure it is done that way in all countries. It has to do with the guidelines for socialized medicine; I had the impression that there was a lack of dialysis positions and preference was given to younger and healthier patients.

Having worked in the health field here I can tell you a lot of places are given to very old people in bad health (advanced diabetics and amputees) so I guess I just assumed that fact to be true without checking because so often dialysis is used on people here that you know aren't going to be around long at all. And here it is big business.

So my thought is with socialized medicine that it would be "rationed", to some extent. But I will try and check around to find correlating backround facts for it. I am pretty sure it is accurate.