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The largest generational cohort in American history, the Baby Boomers, will be the first Americans to be denied available effective life-saving treatments for reasons of cost. The seeds for this mass liquidation have already been planted. Imagine that it is 2016, and you are a 65 year old boomer. You have been admitted to your local community hospital with malaise, fatigue, vomiting and cloudy mental status. You have had blood pressure problems and diabetes for a few years, and have just been diagnosed with renal failure. As you drift in and out of consciousness, you are vaguely aware your old...

  EXCLUSIVE Cleaning boss hit by MRSA Crippled for life ... devastated ex-boss NormanPicture: PETER LOMAS     By ANDY RUSSELL A FORMER NHS cleaning supervisor has lost a leg — after catching the deadly MRSA superbug in his own hospital. Dad-of-two Norman Turner, 42, contracted the disease while recovering from a routine operation to replace an artery. Last night he slammed doctors, nurses and cleaning staff at Blackburn Royal Infirmary, Lancashire, for “appalling” standards of hygiene. Norman, who worked for 15 years at the hospital — where he helped to train staff to combat MRSA — said: “I was...