Don't treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors

As I have posted before, I believe that events in England prophesies the nature of our society under a liberal government and culture. Here is one more example of a Health Care Train Wreck
that is going to happen if we allow the government to dictate our health care requirements and system. I thought having the government involved was supposed to guarantee health care for ALL. No rationing. No worrying about costs. No triage. Isn't this some of the complaints about insurance companies. At least you can sue a company. Try doing that to the government.

From the Telegraph.Co.UK

excerpts:

Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.

Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone. Fertility treatment and "social" abortions are also on the list of procedures that many doctors say should not be funded by the state.

Among the survey of 870 family and hospital doctors, almost 60 per cent said the NHS could not provide full healthcare to everyone and that some individuals should pay for services.

One in three said that elderly patients should not be given free treatment if it were unlikely to do them good for long. Half thought that smokers should be denied a heart bypass, while a quarter believed that the obese should be denied hip replacements.