From Scotland:
A GOVERNMENT adviser and leading surgeon has suggested that NHS funds would be better spent on providing surgery for morbidly obese patients than on palliative care for the terminally ill.
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Monday, August 06, 2012
Unpalatable choices in public health provision
A disturbing example of the difficult choices that will increasingly face public health rationers.
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Andrew de Beaux, a consultant weight loss and gastric surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary…
Says it all, really.
He would have to have a proper analysis of cost/benefits before he has the right to say this. Also why should tax payers have to suffer in the last months of their lives while those with a self-induced condition get expensive, and probably not that effective, treatment. mawm
We already make such "unpalatable" rationing choices.
The communist state decides who lives and who dies.
This has been the case ever since communist healthcare was forced on New Zealand.
The fact of the matter is that the rump communist states - like Scotland, like New Zealand - cannot afford to provide either weight loss or palliative care
The entirety of NZ's welfare budget - including hospitals and schools, has been borrowed for the last 5 years
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