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The Sadistic Brutality of England’s Government-Run Healthcare

Virginia99 Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 7:43 AM
Eventually, in the US, you will be assigned a quality of life score that will determine whether or not you receive various kinds of treatments. These kinds of decisions currently are made between doctors and patients. In the future, government bureacrats will make them. Access to care is another means of rationing. Because of Medicare reimbursements cuts over the past three years that nobody takes about, a recent study by a global research firm found that of 12,000 physicians, 75% said that their practices are in severe financial diffiuclty, 35% said that they foreseeclosing their practices in 2013, and 20% are using personal funds to keep their practices open. The strategy: less access means lower costs.
rwright Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 2:47 PM
The decisions are currently made by clerks at insurance companies. Millions of patients fight their insurers over treatments prescribed by their doctors and denied b their insurers. Wake up - no system is perfect, but several European systems are better than anything in North America.
tkdblk Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 4:55 PM
better than a clerk in a government bureaucracy.

I’m not easily grossed out or nauseated. Heck, I’m on email lists for a half-dozen softball teams and you can only imagine the strange/filthy/nasty things that guys send to each other.

But I read a story about the death panels in the United Kingdom that left me discombobulated. I can’t even begin to describe how I feel.

Here’s the intro of a disturbing report in the Daily Mail.

Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’. Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to...

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