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    Default From the National Health Service- the Death penalty.

    So if you can pay for any additional drugs (yourself) to increase your chances of recovery; you have to pay the whole bill. This way it is fair....................



    December 18, 2007
    Twisted equality in socialized medicine
    Ethel Fenig
    In still yet another shuddering preview of health under Hillarycare or whatever form of socialized medicine that the mainly Democratic candidates promise to impose on us, Britain's National Health Service has issued this truly Orwellian/Kafkaesque decree.

    A WOMAN will be denied free National Health Service treatment for breast cancer if she seeks to improve her chances by paying privately for an additional drug.

    Colette Mills, a former nurse, has been told that if she attempts to top up her treatment privately, she will have to foot the entire £10,000 bill for her drugs and care. The bizarre threat stems from the refusal by the government to let patients pay for additional drugs that are not prescribed on the NHS.

    Huh? And what is the purpose of this truly potentially deadly NHS policy?

    Ministers say it is unfair on patients who cannot afford such top-up drugs and that it will create a two-tier NHS. It is thought thousands of patients suffer as a result of the policy.

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    The Department of Health said: “Co-payments would risk creating a two-tier health service and be in direct contravention with the principles and values of the NHS.”

    So instead of a two tier system, good (private) and bad (public), only one system--bad--is allowed in England with no role model for improvement (private). Death, in the holy pursuit of equality, seems to be the goal.

    Other solutions are up against equally twisted negative rationalizations. And beware the politician who oh so sincerely promises that a similar situation could not happen here. Oh yeah? Surrendering to government for free treatment means surrendering freedom.
    Having many friends and relatives, alas, afflicted with breast cancer, this article, and previous ones on socialized health posted here, and here, and here touch me personally and deeply. While these friends and relatives are in various stages of treatment--and sadly, a few are gone--not one seems to have been denied a beneficial treatment.

    For some reason, Michael Moore's film, Sicko, a paean to socialized medicine, failed to mention cases like this. He didn't so we must.





    Just get Insurance Lobbyists and Government out of health care and the system will fix itself.

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    Default Re: From the National Health Service- the Death penalty.

    Huh? And what is the purpose of this truly potentially deadly NHS policy?
    the obvious answer is to save on NHS expenditures !!! A dead patient doesn't require additional expenditures. This same sort of logic also shows up in long waiting lists for expensive treatments ... shows up in priority decisions made by NHS (where a young worker with many years of income taxes ahead of him will receive prompt scheduling, whereas a retiree will be placed at the end of the line).

    So instead of a two tier system, good (private) and bad (public), only one system--bad--is allowed in England with no role model for improvement (private).
    Actually this is incorrect. The 'rich' are indeed able to seek the best quality health care that money can buy ... as long as they are willing to pay 100% of the cost in one way or another. There is indeed a 'second tier' of private health care providers available ... if you can pay in cash. It is only the 'middle class' who cannot afford to pay 100% of the cost themselves that are doomed to the same poor levels of health care that the 'poor' receive from NHS facilities.

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