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To: markomalley
In the U.K., overweight patients or those who smoke are branded "undeserving" and denied treatments like cataract surgery (without which they could eventually go blind) and knee and hip surgery, leaving some who don't qualify for the surgery in agonizing pain. Some of the U.K.'s "trusts," which regulate the national health care system for various zones of the country, go farther, denying all operations to those who don't meet the government's weight dictates except for lifesaving surgery on their hearts, brains or to remove cancer.

...and the result....plumber guy was not allowed to get a cast for broken arm because he was smoking the same day....

...also denied disability payments...."you still got an arm...you can clean out toilets with that bend in it"


53 posted on 03/23/2013 8:33:48 AM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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if you want to understand how Obamacare works....just google:

Liverpool Pathway Controversy

Read and weep

54 posted on 03/23/2013 8:41:54 AM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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