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They're covering some, but the problem is there isn't enough money, hence the rationing. And FWIW, I have no problem with regs that require folks to pay for their own care if they have the assets to do it.

Here's Heritage on the same story...

How’s That Government-run Health Care Working Out Britain?

Meanwhile...

Healthcare trusts 'not paying for Nice approved drugs'

Four in 10 local healthcare trusts are not funding medications which have been approved by the Government’s drugs rationing body, a new survey shows.

What a charlie foxtrot...

It just struck me as a funny sentence: they’d originally specified that she was incompetent to live alone, but implied that the sale of her house was a hardship to a nursing home occupant.

I think people should pay for their own medical care, or their own insurance to cover it, too.

They're covering some, but the problem is there isn't enough money, hence the rationing. And FWIW, I have no problem with regs that require folks to pay for their own care if they have the assets to do it.

I have a huge problem with a government taking money from everyone and then excluding some people from payment. The richer someone is the more they take from them to pay for health insurance for everyone and then they are making the very ones who footed the bill pay for their treatment out of the money they happen to have left after the government ripped huge chunks of it away from them to pay for other people's care.

To support such a system is very liberal like. The above statement by me points out one of the most fundamental problems with socialized medicine, it is about taking and never giving. They would have made the same prognosis on a poor person as they did with this woman who had a few bucks left in the form of real estate assets.

Socialized medicine is BS and I do not want it.