[Stoat]

Related FR threads to see:

No new hips or knees for fat patients (UK)

Briton too overweight for NHS, not for Indian doctors

Hospital fined for treating too many patients

Too fat Medicaid might be withheld

UK NHS patients make beeline for Belgium

NHS patients pay cash for superior care (Socialized medicine collapsing in England)

[Glenn]

Coming soon to a country near you.

[agent_delta]

Socialized Medicine is good.

/sarc

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Except Muslims, of course....

[TASMANIANRED]

Socialized medicion is rationed medicine.

[Popocatapetl]

Haw haw. Don’t you love how socialist bureaucrats come up with excuses for not doing things they can’t do anyway?

I bet that 6 million was almost exactly the number of people who wouldn’t get surgery within six months anyway.

“But we have to preserve our precious socialized medicine, at all costs! (snivel!)”

[Gorzaloon]

Milton Keynes

*Snort* Well, it is not a Quality Of Life issue there..

[Gorzaloon]

So..Exactly what do they do if someone wants surgery, and says, "I am not overweight, nor do I smoke! I have these purple welts on me, and feel weak and catch pneumonia all the time, and I cannot spend as much time in bath houses as I used to."

I bet they have to operate.

Chubbies and smokers made choices. So did this guy. Why is there a difference?

[dragonblustar]

Michael Moore is dooooooooomed!!!!

[Stoat]

Here's an idea...since people are apparently willing to pay ( or, rather, forced into paying) thousands of pounds to travel to other countries to get the care that they need, how about leasing unused hospital ships from the Navy and stationing them just outside Great Britain's territorial waters?  Enterprising Capitalists could start ferry companies dedicated to bringing patients out to the ships where they could have their healthcare needs provided for.

Capitalism rescues the public from Socialism once again!

[ApplegateRanch]

Surprise, surprise, surprise...science fiction strikes again!

I’ve read stories dealing with these issues, in addition to maximum ages of treatment, and much else for the past 40 years.

Naturally, those in power poo-pood it; and the illiterate masses, even if they could have read the warnings being cried in the wilderness, were too mesmerized by promises of “free care forever” to pay any attention.

[ExSES]

Patients are being denied operations on the NHS simply because they are overweight or smoke, a survey by Sky News has found.

It is called "Economic Medical Triage"! Coming to you as a side benefit of the soon to be enacted "National Healthcare Assurance Act of 2009"!......... Stay tuned!

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

And of COURSE, these 6 million will be allowed to opt out of paying the taxes that support this travesty.

What am I saying? Of COURSE they will!

[ArmstedFragg]

A blog resource for anyone who’s interested in the real story about the English medical system.

http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Nine primary care trusts have a specific policy to refuse joint replacements to obese patients. And four will not consider orthopaedic surgery if patients smoke.

That way, they can sit on their butts (not necessarily by choice) and be an even BIGGER burden on society!

[GingisK]

Are they allowed to reduce what they pay in taxes?

[Publius6961]

Despite living on a pension she has taken out an £8000 loan to pay for surgery abroad.
She said: "I don't think it is fair. If I lived in Bournemouth there would be no bar on being overweight. I can't see any other way round the problem.

I should think that changing her residency to Bournemouth for 6 months would cost less than £8000

[John Jorsett]

I’m guessing that one thing you won’t see is AIDS treatment denied on “it’s your own damned fault” grounds.

[ChildOfThe60s]

bump

[Churchillspirit]

She has taken out a loan of eight thousand pounds (sixteen thousand dollars) to have the operation abroad.

I hope she is not thinking of coming to the US for surgery.Sixteen thousand dollars would not go far here.

[TBP]

Government health care at its finest!