Posted on 09/08/2009 4:32:48 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under a scheme by Britain’s equivalent of medicare to help end their lives, leading doctors claim.
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
Under National Health Service guidelines introduced in England, medical staff can withdraw fluid and drugs from dying patients and many are put on continuous sedation until they die. But this approach can also mask signs of improvement, the experts say.
As a result, the scheme is causing a “national crisis” in patient care, the letter states.
(Excerpt) Read more at kelowna.com ...
Sounds just like ObamaCare
This is what the Canadians and the British have chosen to do with their health care systems. No one else has made the same choicest to the best of my knowledge. Is there a reason to believe that we as a nation will make those same choices?
BTW, the same choices, or variations on the same themes, are being made today here by insurance companies refusing to pay for what they call “extraordinary treatment” for terminal patients. We have two such cases in the office right now. Is there a difference between insurance companies refusing treatment to enhance profit and a national health care system doing the same to save money?
At best, that means "killed."
You can pay for it yourself if insurance refuses. In the Brit system, you can also. Don’t know about Canadians but I think they can.
People think if insurance doesn’t pay, they are denied access but that is not true.
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Mmmmmmm... in Sweden (granted, different system) a patient was denied permission to purchase a new drug because it wasn’t on the nationalized list (thus it was “unfair” to let the more-moneyed use it).
It’s white old people who have the money in this country...
Coming soon to a hospital near you...
That isdisturbing.
I know that if O care comes in that if my cancer recurs, they will not pay for chemo that will extend my life maybe a year or two on the idea that it is not “curative” so I am well prepared to do it myself as is my husband and we have the means to do so. If denied, that would be wrong. But I fear that.
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