If his angina is stable (if it wasn’t he would probably have had bypass already) and her diabetes is in control then there overhealth is only slightly worse then that of an average person.
Here, we wouldn’t consider their health problems to be of issue. Over there, even though the health care is free, it has limitations and long wait times for certain things. I wonder if that plays into the equation. I don’t agree with what is happening. I would think the grandparents would be able to care for the kids, and if not, there must be another family that would take them.
This is the UK we are chatting about. There the national health service has a 6 year wait for life saving surgery.
His angina may kill Grandfather before the doctors get off the golf course long enough to get to him. And why should they? Their pay is exactly the same if they treat him or not, if he lives or dies.
The grandfather is 59. The NHS isn’t going to do a bypass on an elderly man like that. He’s going to die soon, anyway.
Just channelling the British bureaucratic mindset.