The British system has a unique feature...if you are terminal in just about any fashion....even if the end is eighteen months away....other than pain medication, you won’t get nothing else.
It’s the same way if you weight over 300 pounds and need a knee replacement...you won’t get it until you usually get down to 200 pounds. With a bad knee, there’s virtually no way that you can lose weight...so you just get pain-killers until the day you pass away.
It might take twenty years, but if Obamacare stays intact....we will all be inviting regulations to dominate our health in the end. You may one day have to buy a ticket to Costa Rica....just to get the care that you think you deserve.
Hey somebody tell that jerk that own’s Virgin Airlines that was raving about the British Helathcare system..forgot his name right now.
unfortunately that is logical -- and that is the problem with socialized health-care. Someone needs to decide who needs something more -- and it's a hard decision. i don't envy the ones who have to make it. Finally it has to come down to raw, cold numbers because if one goes by the heart, then all need aid
Public health-care on the NHS level has this problem.
1—Utter rubbish. Please stop swallowing myth spewed by talk radio and Fox and FR. The idea we let terminal people die with no attempt to reverse the situation is obscene and offensive.
2—The NHS wont waste a new knee on grossly fat people, why should they if they wont try and lose weight?. BTW, you are speaking to the son of a 60 yr old man who got a knee replacement and with little exercise, but with careful dieting, lost the 20 pounds he was asked to lose before the op, and he did it in 3 wks.
It CAN be done. British people awaiting transplants lose weight all the time. As a former NHS worker, I even know of cases where grossly fat people who cant lose the weight get an op to do so, THEN get the knee operation or joint operation.
Frankly, I dont know where you are picking up all this NHS nonsense from.