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Innovations in clinical practice, drugs and other technologies can improve the quality and extent of patients’ lives – but they are often expensive. With budget cuts looming, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been charged with helping the government to decide which treatments are sufficiently cost effective to be made available on the NHS. But for those facing life threatening illnesses, can a price be put on life? We ask the public whether medicine should be rationed due to its price and denied according to your lifestyle. For many, this is an affront to the value of human life and most argue that medicine should not be rationed even it only gives us a few more weeks life. Lifestyle however is a different ball game and sadly the idea that healthcare should be rationed for smokers, drinkers and the obese is gaining ground.Innovations in clinical practice, drugs and other technologies can improve the quality... more
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Axe falls on NHS services
NHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts to services, with restrictions on the most basic treatments for the sick and injured.
Telegraph.co.uk
By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent
24 Jul 2010
(VIDEOS BELOW ARTICLE)
Some of the most common operations — including hip replacements and cataract surgery — will be rationed as part of attempts to save billions of pounds, despite government promises that front-line services would be protected.
Patients’ groups have described the measures as “astonishingly brutal”.
(VIDEO) Obama’s Model? British NHS Healthcare Services Massive Rationing…GO HOME AND DIE!...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/video-obamas-model-british-nhs-healthcare-services-massive-rationing-go-home-and-die/Axe falls on NHS services
NHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts... more
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Obama’s New Health Care Czar: “We Must Redistribute Wealth”
EyeBlast
July 7, 2010
Today, President Obama officially made Donald Berwick his recess appointment to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In a 2008 while speaking on the British health care system in the UK, Berwick said wealthy individuals must redistribute their wealth to those less fortunate for health care funding.
Also during this speech, he told those in attendance that he opposes free markets.
“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”
Obama’s New Health Care Czar Donald Berwick: “We Must Redistribute Wealth”…(VIDEO)...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/obama%E2%80%99s-new-health-care-czar-donald-berwick-%E2%80%9Cwe-must-redistribute-wealth%E2%80%9D-video/Obama’s New Health Care Czar: “We Must Redistribute Wealth”... more
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20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms
FireAndreaMitchell.com
March 23, 2010
With ObamaCARE now passed, containing the Cornhusker Kickback, Gator-Aid, the Lousiana Purchase, and other shady deals, Investors Business Daily gives up 20 ways that ObamaCARE will take away our freedoms. IBD’s sections described below are taken from HR 3590 as agreed to by the Senate and from the reconciliation bill which takes out the Cornhusker Kickback and Gator-Aid as displayed by the Rules Committee.
20 Ways Obama’s HealthCare Law’s Will Take Away Our Freedoms…VIDEO…http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/20-ways-obamas-healthcare-laws-will-take-away-our-freedoms-video/
1. You are young and don’t want health insurance? You are starting up a small business and need to minimize expenses, and one way to do that is to forego health insurance? Tough. You have to pay $750 annually for the “privilege.” (Section 1501)20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms
FireAndreaMitchell.com
March 23,... more
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On the streets of London the public are not impressed by politician’s talk of austerity. WORLDbytes volunteers interview young and old, and each other, and as many suggest, what are people who already have little supposed to cut back on? Austerity is prescribed for all but not everyone is in the same boat. Should we all take responsibility for economic failure and share the pain? The public say no.On the streets of London the public are not impressed by politician’s talk of... more
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Austerity now trips off the lips of every politician. They tell us cut backs and tightening our belts are the order of the day. The Imperial War Museum website even provides ten top tips from the Blitz for surviving the recession. Jean, Doris and Andy, who lived through the Blitz in East London give us their account of rationing and hope we’ll never have to go through this again.Austerity now trips off the lips of every politician. They tell us cut backs and... more
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Are you worried about access to health care? Here is some specific information from the White House.Are you worried about access to health care? Here is some specific information from... more
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Two parched years - punctuated by the driest spring in at least 150 years - could force districts across California to ration water this summer as policymakers and scientists grow increasingly concerned that the state is on the verge of a long-term drought.
State water officials reported Thursday that the Sierra Nevada snowpack, the source of a huge portion of California's water supply, was only 67 percent of normal, due in part to historically low rainfall in March and April.
In Southern California, the water district serving about 330,000 people in Orange County enacted water rationing last year, due in part to a ruling by U.S. Judge Oliver Wanger reducing water pumped from the delta by about a third to protect an endangered fish.
Already, some farmers are switching to crops requiring less water and letting fields go fallow. One water agency official recently talked to a Southern California avocado grower who cut his trees back to stumps and won't begin growing again until water supplies recover.Two parched years - punctuated by the driest spring in at least 150 years - could... more
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