British ObamaCare update: Medication being rationed
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"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care-the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open." Donald Berwick, President Obama's choice to run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, June, 2009.
Berwick is an admirer of Great Britain's long-dysfunctional National Health Service, the UK's government-run health care agency.
The NHS has rationed health care for years. In Berwick's utopia, "red lists" are maintained. On those lists, the Telegraph reports, are medications that can only be prescribed by an NHS consultant, not a general practitioner. Those drugs include statins, diabetes medications, osteoporosis treatments, and medicine for Parkinson's disease.
Well, the British are rationing with their eyes open, I'll concede them that.
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"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care-the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open." Donald Berwick, President Obama's choice to run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, June, 2009.
Berwick is an admirer of Great Britain's long-dysfunctional National Health Service, the UK's government-run health care agency.
The NHS has rationed health care for years. In Berwick's utopia, "red lists" are maintained. On those lists, the Telegraph reports, are medications that can only be prescribed by an NHS consultant, not a general practitioner. Those drugs include statins, diabetes medications, osteoporosis treatments, and medicine for Parkinson's disease.
Well, the British are rationing with their eyes open, I'll concede them that.
Related posts:
Top NHS consulting doc says babies born at 23 weeks should be left to die
British ObamaCare update: BBC DJ's family victimized
British ObamaCare update: D-Day veteran left to starve, family hires private nurse
British ObamaCare update: Malnutrition and two deaths a day from thirst
2010 British ObamaCare entries
2009 British ObamaCare entries
Technorati tags:
politics
news
health
universal health care
health care reform
obamacare
uk
nhs
socialism
medical
donald berwick