Fri 20 Nov 2009
In 1948 the British Government promised the people of the UK that ALL Medical, Dental and Nursing Care would be free, yet this week the Government agency the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has decided that you will be left to die if your medical condition is considered to be too expensive to treat.
If this is not a stark enough warning that Government should not be involved in healthcare I don’t know what is.
Of course you’ll be left to die if the NHS can’t afford your healthcare, but all healthcare systems have finite resources and rationing. How is that different from a health insurance company refusing to pay for your treatment because your premiums weren’t high enough? We don’t have the money to treat everyone all of the time and tough choices have to be made.
It’s not as simple an issue as you seem to think. Slagging off the NHS in the way you do ignores the facts about healthcare everywhere.