Mark Horne:
What happens if you are old and sick in the UK? In many cases, it seems you’re consigned to die. This is especially evident with cancer.
The Daily Mail reports, “Too old to be given cancer treatment: NHS is ‘writing off’ patients who are over 75.”
What is there evidence?
They have statistics. They can compare what happens to their citizens compared to what happens in the rest of Europe. So, if you get lung cancer, you are “only” ten percent more likely to die within five years than you would if you were on the Continent. (To my mind, a ten percent difference should have Brits up in arms, apart from any other consideration.) But if you are a “pensioner” then you are 43 percent more likely to die.
The figure for stomach cancer – at 45 per cent – is even worse.
And Britons with prostate cancer are a fifth less likely to survive than Europeans if they are 85 and over.
Just 43 per cent live for five years, compared with up to 67 per cent over the Channel.
Patients in their 70s and 80s with kidney cancer have a 32 per cent survival rate, compared with 46-53 per cent in Europe.
Why have Democrats decided to wage wars of geriatricide and established pogroms of extermination on the elderly and infirm?
For the same reason@Ditto:
For the same reason the age to receive social security was set at 65 when the average life expectancy ranged from 58-64….so the progressives could take more of the average citizen’s money while claiming to want to help “take care” of the citizens. It was another way to lie and take more money from the peasants to pay for the schemes of the self-professed elites.
See the elderly who no longer work don’t really pay enough in taxes to the leftists to warrant being allowed to live, much less to expend government-controlled assets to keep the old person alive.
Ditto
I HOPE THEY DON’T CALL THEMSELVES AMERICANS,
THEIR ACTIONS ARE UNAMERICAN,
AND HATEFUL,
@bees#3 – Hey Bees – the US Government – Our President and our Politicians LIED about (ACA) Obamacare. Which is what is particularly Un-American. Your OWN GOVERNMENT LYING to you about something so important to so many people…and even MORE DISTURBING those believing those lies…then voting for the lies…
Until I am blue in the face I will say over and over the (liberal-hated) Tea Party was right!!
The people who voted for Ofraud (liberals) will not be singled out because of their loyalty to a fraud called Obama and his LAW (driven by politicians rhetoric about “free” healthcare) – they are stupid because all this APPLIES to THEM as well.
And the young who are ‘suppose to be paying’ for this? And, even though they can stay on their parents policy until they are 26?? They could give two shits about paying for healthcare NOW at their age…so exactly HOW will this get paid for?
By letting ‘certain’ people die and then the Government stealing that death money that’s how…Now I wonder if this also applies to politicians and their families????
FAITH7
he know he is sinking and the whole ship, and he want to bring the other not complying with him any more,
he will use any blame to get away with the responsibility,
the it’s BUSH ‘s FAULT, he fed people since the start,
but moneys are disapearing,
that money which belong to the people, by trillions,
he soon will be ask questions, and questions, he will ditter, unable to answer, AND THE UNIONS WILL LET HIM DOWN,
THEY HAVE NO MORE USE FOR HIM,
his debt is great, he won”t get away with it, his time is coming,
what goes up usualy come down and crashing, if it”s corrupt,
BYE
4 shocking facts about American healthcare (video)
http://americablog.com/2014/01/4-shocking-facts-american-healthcare-video.html