August 04, 2009

Boy am I glad we are following the British and Canadian lead on health care

The Telegraph - Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections -

The Government's drug rationing watchdog says "therapeutic" injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known.

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Specialists fear tens of thousands of people, mainly the elderly and frail, will be left to suffer excruciating levels of pain or pay as much as £500 each for private treatment.

The NHS currently issues more than 60,000 treatments of steroid injections every year. NICE said in its guidance it wants to cut this to just 3,000 treatments a year, a move which would save the NHS £33 million.


And just think pretty soon the U.S. will have it's own medical guidance board. Whoopee!!!

I still maintain that this entire evolution on health care is really a stealth effort at entitlement reform. With a projected short fall of 13.6 Trillion dollars Social Security has the potential to break the treasury, but if we downsize the burden by denying old people care so they die faster and make other people so miserable that they opt for physician assisted suicide then we can go a long way to cleaning that up.

Added bonus- with the food shortages that Glenn Beck assures me are coming due to Obama's stupid economic policies there will be lots of raw material for Soylent Grey. Soylent Grey is Old people!!!


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