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Full Title: 'This is a death sentence': Pensioner with aneurysm that could kill her any minute told NHS won't fund £15,000 surgery
1 posted on 02/06/2012 5:49:20 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Welcome to government run health care.


2 posted on 02/06/2012 5:51:36 AM PST by svcw (Only difference between Romney & BH is one thinks he will be god & other one thinks he already is.)
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To: Nachum

This is Exactly Obama’s plan!

He must be confronted and defeated!


3 posted on 02/06/2012 5:55:05 AM PST by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: Nachum
1) I don't want government involved in health care.

2) I believe the free market would provide better/cheaper access to health care, if allowed to work.

3) In a sustainable system, some people will not get all of the health care that they might want. The money might not be available. The needed skills might be in short supply and available on to some patients, not all patients.

4) I accept the fact that I, the people I love, and people I have never met, may end up with "a death sentence" because medical attention which might be desired, is not actually made available on demand.

5) People who demand that all of the "tragic stories" have happy outcomes, are actually campaigning for an unsustainable system of socialized medicine, though they may not realize it.

4 posted on 02/06/2012 6:01:46 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I am pro-Jesus, anti-abortion, pro-limited government, anti-GOP.)
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To: Nachum

That’s only $25,000.

Scandalous - and the Brits think they have life-saving medical care for which they paid during their healthy working years?

Time to ban some elective procedures and save money for medically necessary care.

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5 posted on 02/06/2012 6:03:41 AM PST by sodpoodle ( Newt - God has tested him for a reason...... to celebrate life and embrace the future.)
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To: Nachum
Pensioner with aneurysm that could kill her any minute told NHS won't fund £15,000 surgery

So let her pay to have it done privately - if not in the the UK then elsewhere. What she doesn't have the money you say? Then too bad - she should have saved her money earleir. Her fellow citizens don't owe her anything. Health care isn't a right.

6 posted on 02/06/2012 6:24:34 AM PST by from occupied ga (your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Nachum

This is pure EVIL beyond words.


9 posted on 02/06/2012 6:37:49 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Nachum

So what’s the point? Socialist healthcare isn’t socialist enough? She’s got 5 grandkids, they should pitch in, take her somewhere that will do the operation, and pay for it themselves.


16 posted on 02/06/2012 7:06:41 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Nachum

How does it feel to have the value of your life decided by someone else?


21 posted on 02/06/2012 7:22:51 AM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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I don't understand.

"The widow was judged to be too old and ill to survive open heart surgery, but doctors said she was fit enough for a keyhole operation to fit a tailor-made stent."

What good does a stent do for an aortic aneurysm? Further, the article states,

"It admitted it had funded the procedure - a fenestrated endovascular aortic aneurysm repair - for patients in Coventry before. The operation involves making a small incision near the groin and travelling up the artery to fit a stent at the point of the aneurysm.'

This is the surgery that actually attempts to repair the aneurysm. Do all the doctors agree this is too risky? Are the doctors proposing an ineffective surgery to make some money?

24 posted on 02/06/2012 7:47:50 AM PST by Doe Eyes
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As a pensioner, she is not of use to the regime any longer. She should be thankful that they don’t simply terminate her now.

(Is the < /sarc > tag REALLY necessary?)


29 posted on 02/06/2012 8:36:47 AM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Nachum
Today it is the 72 year olds who do not qualify.

Next year will it be the 65 year olds?

In 10 years will it be 50 year olds or 35 year olds, that do not qualify?

When they say no to you.

Then you will understand how grandma felt when they said no to her.

37 posted on 02/06/2012 11:49:14 AM PST by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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