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Do you think American smokers and the obese would be willing to have their medical treatment denied?
57% of those surveyed said they didn't intend to reduce NHS-covered services.
Futhermore, FTA:
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The Conservatives said they would stop CCGs imposing such rationing. “If local health bodies stop patients from having treatments on the basis of cost alone, then we will take action against them”, said a party spokesman.
Call me crazy, but I think American health outcomes should be a higher priority than health insurer profit margins and dividend rates.
Nothing is stopping you from paying your doctor bills to the doctor and not filing a claim with your insurance company. People do is all the time with their homeowners and auto policy.
the MEDIAN retirement savings of working americans is less then 60K.
And that $60K is in stocks and other investments. Eliminate profits and you make it impossible for many to ever even retire at all. Foolish plan.
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By far the massive numbers you provide are a "estimate" that to be honest may very well have posted the information that you go on about as a way of making a non-factually based argument look like its based on reality. ICI lobbies on behalf of investment companies.
If you dispute the $24.7 Trillion retirement assets figure, provide evidence that it's false.
57% of those surveyed said they didn't intend to reduce NHS-covered services.
Sucks for the patients of the other 43%. So, Ill ask again... Do you think American smokers and the obese would be willing to have their medical treatment denied? The poor smoke disproportionately and have higher obesity rates. So, guess what would happen...
NHS already denies medical treatment based on one's poor lifestyle choices, this is just a further extension of what they already do.
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"...four in five NHS areas are rationing surgery and other treatments for patients with a high body mass index, while almost two in three are refusing to treat smokers."
Sucks for the patients of the other 43%. So, Ill ask again... Do you think American smokers and the obese would be willing to have their medical treatment denied? The poor smoke disproportionately and have higher obesity rates. So, guess what would happen...
NHS already denies medical treatment based on one's poor lifestyle choices, this is just a further extension of what they already do.
As I recall, they kind of did think of it .... it was one of the big criticisms. But a single-payer system was taken off the table because the lobbyists for hospitals and health insurers didn't like it.
And those of us who were against it for this very reason were called racists.
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