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Health Rationing In England: Obese And Smokers Banned From Routine Surgery


For those who extol the virtues of socialized medicine, and protest that it could never, never, ever lead to rationing, here’s a wake-up call from Great Britain.

Health care experts in Great Britain are warning that obese people and smokers will be routinely refused operations all across Great Britain in the very near future. The latest case in point comes from North Yorkshire, where patients having a BMI of 30 or higher and smokers will be refused routine surgery for over a year for non-life-threatening conditions.

That means standard hip and knee operations are out.

Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) stated:

The local system is under severe pressure. Hospitals are being warned they will not be paid for surgery if they carry out operations on obese patients who are not exempt from the policy. This work will help to ensure that we get the very best value from the NHS and not exceed our resources or risk the ability of the NHS being there when people really need it. ​

Clare Marx, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, condemned the decision, asserting:

This policy from Vale of York is among the most severe the modern NHS has ever seen. Leaving patients waiting in pain for treatment longer than is clinically necessary cannot be accepted. In the last month alone, the Royal College of Surgeons has learnt of at least three clinical commissioning groups that are planning to introduce policies that deny or delay patients’ access to surgery as a means to cut spending At this rate we may see brutal service reductions becoming the norm, rather than just being exceptions.​

 

[b23hqb]

Simply put, if Brits go on a health conscious diet to get within the BMI of less than 30, and too many people qualify for the limited funds for surgeries, Their national health death panels will simply raise the bar by lowering the max BMI to something like 24, eliminating even more people for surgeries.

It's all about limiting citizens options to available care, to meet the budget. Coming here sooner than we think. Those pesky death panels that don't exist, right, Charlie Gard & family?

 

[officeguy]

Makes sense. This is for hip and knee operations. If you run a facility that can only implant so many of these per year, you need to focus on the patients that are going to get the most benefit from it.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Doctors do the exact same thing here but for different reasons.

Smokers don't heal nearly as easily as non smokers because smoking constricts the blood vessels and makes healing much less likely.

Knee and hip replacement is more obvious, doctors here also won't do the replacements if you are "too young" because the artificial ones have a life of approoximately 20 years. Personally Id rather have a good knee or hip now over one when im old.