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Cancer sufferers refused life-extending drugs despite Government pledge (UK)
The Telegraph ^ | 2/26/2011 | Laura Donnelly

Posted on 02/27/2011 2:00:16 PM PST by surroundedbyblue

Their requests have been rejected by regional health authorities who were accused of operating covert “blacklists” to restrict dozens of treatments to save money. An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered more than 80 cases in which desperately sick NHS patients have been refused the cancer drugs their doctor sought, in the four months since a £200 million fund was introduced to stop health authorities rationing treatments. The fund was a key move by the Coalition so that those suffering from cancer would never again be refused drugs on grounds of cost.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: deathpanels; healthcare; moralabsolutes; nhs; nice; prolife; rationing; socialisthealthcare; socializedmedicine
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1 posted on 02/27/2011 2:00:20 PM PST by surroundedbyblue
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To: surroundedbyblue

Or as Monty Python would have called it, “Peath Danels.”


2 posted on 02/27/2011 2:01:46 PM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Sarah Palin was righter than she herself could imagine. UNOFFICIAL death panels, moved by the love of money.


3 posted on 02/27/2011 2:03:46 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: surroundedbyblue

And when these weasels are collared and brought into the light, they will (more or less correctly) complain that the government which made such a noble pledge is failing to stand behind the underlings who are charged with keeping the pledge.


4 posted on 02/27/2011 2:06:35 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Rationed health care coming soon to a clinic near you.


5 posted on 02/27/2011 2:10:44 PM PST by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Death panels... genocide.


6 posted on 02/27/2011 2:11:30 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: HiTech RedNeck
And when these weasels are collared and brought into the light, they will (more or less correctly) complain that the government which made such a noble pledge is failing to stand behind the underlings who are charged with keeping the pledge.

Befehl ist Befehl- Tom

7 posted on 02/27/2011 2:15:01 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: surroundedbyblue
I recommend the publication of the names pictures and home addresses of the members of these death panels, for transparency, of course.
8 posted on 02/27/2011 2:19:10 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: narses; wagglebee

death panels ping-a-ling


9 posted on 02/27/2011 2:32:00 PM PST by surroundedbyblue
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To: surroundedbyblue; 185JHP; 230FMJ; AKA Elena; Albion Wilde; Aleighanne; Alexander Rubin; ...
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10 posted on 02/27/2011 2:40:50 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: surroundedbyblue

btt


11 posted on 02/27/2011 3:02:43 PM PST by GailA (2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Bump.


12 posted on 02/28/2011 7:40:56 AM PST by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: surroundedbyblue

‘take the blue pill’ ping


13 posted on 03/01/2011 9:04:36 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Even if the Patients pay for the drugs out of their own pockets?

I find that hard to belive...


14 posted on 03/01/2011 9:23:38 AM PST by GraceG
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To: GraceG
If Hillarycare had passed, it would have been an imprisonable offense to either personally pay a doctor, personally pay for medication or treatment, or to go to a doctor you were not assigned by the government.

But, you are fre to believe as you please.

15 posted on 03/01/2011 9:27:51 AM PST by sport
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[ If Hillarycare had passed, it would have been an imprisonable offense to either personally pay a doctor, personally pay for medication or treatment, or to go to a doctor you were not assigned by the government.
But, you are fre to believe as you please. ]

I know it is ture, I just find it hard to believe!!!


16 posted on 03/01/2011 9:46:30 AM PST by GraceG
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To: GraceG

I understand. Years ago, I would have never believed what I see that is happening here now.


17 posted on 03/01/2011 10:24:46 AM PST by sport
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To: GraceG

Shouldn’t be too hard to believe. Terri Schiavo’s parents wanted to care for her at their own expense, but a judge condemned her to death by starvation.

I know what you mean, & I see your point. The evilness in this world is so shocking it’s unbelievable. But, sadly, it’s true.


18 posted on 03/01/2011 11:35:38 AM PST by surroundedbyblue
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To: surroundedbyblue

The modern state that is centralized is a perfect example of the bureaucratic state run by anonymous unelected and unaccountable individuals...


19 posted on 03/01/2011 1:28:49 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: surroundedbyblue

The people who killed Terri are clearly evil but what does it also say about the millions who could have done something and just sat their acting indignant? Who do they expect to save their children when the vermin come? There are families all over Europe who already live in terror every day.

I’m not entirely sure who is worse: psychopathic leftist vermin or cowardly conservatives.


20 posted on 03/01/2011 1:34:46 PM PST by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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