Why does the same drivel get dredged up by people who seem to not understand the NHS?
Yes. The NHS practices, what is it again, 'politicised rationing of health care'. Basically we pay for treatment for everyone, but where a drug or treatment is not seen to be particularly effective or the price of it is higher than the benefit received then it is not used. After all we have a finite pot of money to share around ALL.
This is healthcare. People WILL die. It is inevitable. Newsflash, everyone dies in the end. I am sure we could keep any one person alive indefinitly if we really wanted. But, we're human. We die.
Now, let us go to the HMO.... they will similarly refuse to pay for certain treatments that they consider is pointless or 'experimental'. People die, or live terrible lives.
As is said on Micheal Moore* and his 'Sicko' film. The HMOs regard this as denying payment not care, but obviously it is one and the same thing to many. Unless you are truely wonga'd and can pay for the treatment regardless, or step up to the increased insurance payments.
So who do YOU want deciding what treatments should be used or shouldn't? A government organisation or a profit making organisation which regards paying out to make you well as a 'loss', but you paying your premiums as a 'gain'.
I love the way the Yanks distrust their government so much
* I don't follow everything that MM says as gospel. One of his books suggested a solution to NI as a RC Chaplain blessing the water coming out of firehoses to Catholicise the Protestants!!! But talking to various lads from across the pond this seems pretty much fact.