Jim Hoft:
Coming soon to your local clinic…
Top UK professor says cancer drugs should be denied to elderly patients.
The age of sufferers ‘should be taken into account.’
The Daily Mail reported:Expensive drugs should be rationed for the old and frail in favour of people in their prime, one of Britain’s top cancer doctors has said.
Professor Karol Sikora, the former head of cancer at the World Health Organisation, said that oncologists are being ‘bombarded by anti-ageist sentiment’.
But his comments triggered an immediate backlash among cancer charities, which said it would be ‘blatant discrimination’ to deny patients treatment based on their age.
Many new, expensive cancer drugs only prolong life for a few months. Professor Sikora said that as the NHS is under increasing financial pressure, age should therefore be taken into account when deciding who should be treated.
As anyone with critical thinking skills knows, this is the natural result of a socialist health care system. When the government is paying the medical bill, the government has no choice but to ration the finite resources. Since the leftists who push this dehumanizing system cannot ever admit the inherent flaw in their construct, they will demonize doctors, drug and medical device manufacturers, and hospitals, calling for price controls and lower payments for medical services. Wage and price controls ALWAYS result in subsequent shortages (see current economic situation of Venezuela) which means decreased medical care for the masses the left supposedly cared so much about they crafted this disaster in the first place – all under the smokescreen of “fairness” and false compassion.
Obamacare delenda est
@Pete: but, guess who intends to be making the decisions?
horrible, the human is degressing slowly but surely,
because of money, they turn to animal less than animal behavior,
they get closer to their damnation,
36000 criminals illegals released, by OBAMA,
THEY WHERE SUPPOSE TO BE DEPORTED,
RAPIST AND OTHERS,
LOCK YOUR DOOR,
@Bill Burris:
Of course, the same type of people who did so well writing obamacare and running the VA medical system. Oh, and with the same sorts of exemplary folks respinsible for setting up the obamacare website to make the socialist health care experience even more ecstasy-inducing…..like a combination root canal and colonoscopy supervised by nurse Rachet and without that costly, unnecessary anesthesia nonsense….
OBAMACARE HAD A CHANCE TO PROVE THEM RIGHT,
and he miserably blew it with the administration of the VA,
that is sure connected, because it come from his administration also, and the failed cares for the VETERANS,
is telling of obamacare tactics,
and we will hear of stories similar, as time goes by,
if they let down the WARRIORS, IT’S THE ULTIMATE PROOF,
that OBAMACARE IS SUNK DEEP DOWN,
I,M WONDERING WHERE THE MONEY WHICH GOES TO THE VETERANS WENT,
DID IT GO IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR OBAMACARE INSTEAD?
IF NOT THEN WHY HAVE THE BACKLOG STILL 5 AND MAYBE MORE YEARS BACKWARD ,
THE VET ARE WAITING FOR THEIR MONEY, STILL NOW AFTER YEARS OF IT,
YOU ALL INVOLVE ARE CRIMINAL TO TAKE MONEY FROM THE VETERANS,
FIRE THEM ALL,