NHS Death Pathways?

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20170811

Liverpool Care Pathway: Minister will listen to concerns

It is "completely wrong" for terminally ill patients to be put on a "pathway" to death without relatives being consulted, a health minister has said.

Norman Lamb has called a meeting of doctors and patients to discuss worries about the Liverpool Care Pathway - which can see water and food withdrawn.

A Conservative peer has called for an inquiry amid claims some people treated in this way could have survived.

Mr Lamb also defended the practice of paying hospitals for using the pathway.

He was reacting to reports in the Daily Telegraph that two third of NHS Trusts in England using the Liverpool Care Pathway regime have been paid sums totalling millions of pounds for reaching targets related to their use.

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Just thinking how this might translate into the American NHS now it is becoming a reality?

[Seth]

Why is anybody surprised at this? It's the predictable end-game of socialized medicine. Next, the definition of "terminally ill" will be gradually broadened so that eventually, if you cut your finger or catch the flu, you'll be deemed "terminally ill", which will be the truth because there will be no medical care available so any minor injury could end up killing you for lack of care or unconscionable delay.

If you didn't figure that out about socialized medicine in the first 30 seconds of hearing the proposal, you're an idiot...then again, most proletarian dependent class drones are idiots, so I'm not surprised at all.

[Rum]

What a ridiculous thing to say. Talk about arsehattery.

[JimC]

What witches were to deluded puritans, socialism is to Seth...

[cronus]

Seth does has a point in the American context....I'm thinking sixty years has put some safeguards here that protect people but in 'merica?

[Seth]

Seth does has a point in the American context....I'm thinking sixty years has put some safeguards here that protect people but in 'merica?

Which explains why people can't get treatment and die while waiting for socialized medicine in the UK to be administered all the time how, exactly?

Sheeple.