[Nachum]

Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in ´most severe ever´ rationing in the NHS

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Fat is the new snowflake.

[lee martell]

That weight discrimination already happens here in the states, but not on a large scale; no pun intended.

[Let's Roll]

Dwindling resources and return on investment.

[ravenwolf]

Why would they ever have to operate on some one who does not get fat or smoke?

There would be nothing wrong with them.

I believe Lawers are going to lose first place in the liars club.

[Neoliberalnot]

Nice, but queers that vector infectious disease and receive genital mutilation surgery and steroids for life must have top priority.

[redfreedom]

I’ve often wondered about these excessively fat people and their joints. It’s just gotta be hard on all of their body, on the order of strapping a 100 pound-plus cement block to their body.

Seriously, tie a common cement block to your front and back, sit down and try to get up, let alone walk out the front door, down the steps, to the mail box and back. Why would anyone want to put themselves through obesity?

Walmart is a good example, some little 90 year old lady inching along in her walker, and getting almost run over by some fat slob racing along in one of those electric cars Walmart has. Or some fat slob taking up a handicap parking spot so he does not have to walk very far.

[TexasFreeper2009]

but... I thought the left told us that rationing and death panels were far right scare tactics!

...

[Texas Eagle]

"Death Panels, anyone?"

[DUMBGRUNT]

Hospital leaders in North Yorkshire said that patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above – as well as smokers – will be barred from most surgery for up to a year amid increasingly desperate measures to plug a funding black hole. The restrictions will apply to standard hip and knee operations.

A black hole is correct, but is it OK to say that?

[Son House]

Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., “They just didn’t understand how we could save money on this by adding more people to the system, how it was going to impact them in terms of their premiums and their access to care.”

[blam]

That's racist.

57% of Black females in the USA are OBESE, not over weight.

[DUMBGRUNT]

“When they come, they’ll eat the fat ones first.”

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Persons-of-heft-protest-health-club-s-ad-3305257.php

[umgud]

Saw a show on tv about a 600 pound person who had to go on a diet before getting gastric bypass surgery. Go figure.

[kaila]

Physicians think twice before operating on obese patients. The procedure is harder to do , having to go through layers of fat . Theobese patient has a much higher complication rate. Infection is a huge risk factor. When your complication rate is elevated due to operating on obese patients, you run the risk of losing insurance provider status and having your complications reviewed by the hospital. It is not worth the risk. If you want surgery, lose the weight.

[martin_fierro]

You're all smoking crack. Single-Payer Healthcare is the way to go.

The 2012 London Olympics told me so.

[Chode]

they prolly sat on their azzes while on the dole and got fat, now they want the same taxpayers to pay for an operation, same as here but here they get the operation

[bgill]

That should cut costs by about 90%.

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