At what point will CA start to deny benefits and procedures to keep the tab down?
Tim Worstall finds that the NHS is not really that into resuscitating the elderly.
It is not always in the best interests of the elderly, the frail and the severely disabled to be resuscitated, experts said yesterday, in a challenge to present NHS guidelines.
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...it may be that institutions should not offer resuscitation at all, they suggest. Resources saved could be better used in improving the quality of care.
Shouldn't the patients and patient's family be given the choice rather than the bureaucrats in, at least this case, London? This is the kind of system that the left is actively agitating for, it's their big idea. Worstall asks this question:
Don’t revive people because it’s cheaper? I thought this was the point of our NHS (The Wonder of the World that it is), that financial considerations in what treatment people received were no longer relevant?
Indeed. The government is not immune to financial considerations. In fact, they're worse at managing their finances than private industry. So we can look forward to massive financial problems, lower standard of care and less choice as to when to be resuscitated. Great system.
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