posted October 17, 2017 11:51 PM            

What's next for these communist lunatics? Perhaps they won't treat patients unless they can prove they're down with Socialism and voted for Socialist political candidates.

Thanks, but no Socialist Health Care for America.

NHS provokes fury with indefinite surgery ban for smokers and obese
Laura Donnelly, Health Editor
17 October 2017

The NHS will ban patients from surgery indefinitely unless they lose weight or quit smoking, under controversial plans drawn up in Hertfordshire.

The restrictions - thought to be the most extreme yet to be introduced by health services - immediately came under attack from the Royal College of Surgeons.

Its vice president called for an “urgent rethink” of policies which he said were “discriminatory” and went against the fundamental principles of the NHS.

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.

But the new rules, drawn up by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Hertfordshire, say that obese patients “will not get non-urgent surgery until they reduce their weight” at all, unless the circumstances are exceptional.

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....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/17/nhs-provokes-fury-indefinite-surg ery-ban-smokers-obese/

posted October 18, 2017 12:18 PM            

In other words this is what Tromp is trying to do to the ACA. Its not the health services but those in govt who want everything privatised (and many members of that govt are invested in the profits that brings).