"An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered widespread cuts planned across the NHS, many of which have already been agreed by senior health service officials. They include:
* Restrictions on some of the most basic and common operations, including hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery and orthodontic procedures.
* Plans to cut hundreds of thousands of pounds from budgets for the terminally ill, with dying cancer patients to be told to manage their own symptoms if their condition worsens at evenings or weekends."
"The Sunday Telegraph found the details of hundreds of cuts buried in obscure appendices to lengthy policy and strategy documents published by trusts."
IMO this shows that public healthcare gives total control to the government to "give and taketh away", something supporters don't seem to worry about. Private models have cost problems too, but they allow more options to spend your money as you see fit.
If you want to be, press one. If you want not to be, press 2
Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
Another Ponzi scheme going bust, the first people joined in the 1950's and 1960's did okay, but now the older population increases mean more spent for helathcare and less young people to do the spending.
A canary in a coal mine for the US? Not if you are Biden & Obama, who plan to eventually force the same system on America.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
