{"id":31782,"date":"2017-10-17T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T20:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31782"},"modified":"2017-10-17T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T20:42:46","slug":"this-is-what-single-payer-healthcare-looks-like-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31782","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Single-Payer Healthcare Looks Like In Real Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.K. Telegraph<\/a> posted an article today about plans for National Health Service<\/a> policy in Britain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The NHS (National Health Service) will ban patients<\/a> from surgery<\/a> indefinitely unless they lose weight<\/a> or quit smoking, under controversial plans drawn up in Hertfordshire<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The restrictions – thought to be the most extreme yet to be introduced by health services<\/a> – immediately\u00a0came under attack from the Royal College of Surgeons<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Its vice president called for an \u201curgent rethink\u201d of policies which he said were \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d and went against the fundamental principles of the NHS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…In recent years, a number of areas have introduced delays for such patients – with some told operations will be put back for months, during which time they are expected to try to lose weight or stop smoking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the new rules, drawn up by clinical commissioning groups<\/a> (CCGs) in Hertfordshire, say that obese patients \u201cwill not get non-urgent surgery until they reduce their weight\u201d at all, unless the circumstances are exceptional.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The criteria also mean smokers will only be referred for operations if they have stopped smoking for at least eight weeks, with such patients breathalysed before referral.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I realize that smoking and obesity are not good for your health, but should that disqualify you from needed healthcare? What about drinking soda, drinking alcohol, eating sweets? This is an example of rationed healthcare. It really doesn’t matter what the basis for the rationing is–it is still rationing. And if the concept of rationing is accepted, there is no reason why the basis can’t change on a whim. This is another reason why the free market rather than the government should be making healthcare decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.K. Telegraph posted an article today about plans for National Health Service policy in Britain. The article reports: The NHS (National Health Service) will ban patients from surgery indefinitely unless they lose weight or quit smoking, under controversial plans … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1250,11097,7,9645],"class_list":["post-31782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-britain","tag-national-health-service","tag-obamacare","tag-single-payer-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31783,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31782\/revisions\/31783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}