Cable Forum - View Single Post - Obese people and smokers to be refused surgery (now in review)

**Maggy** · 04-09-2016, 07:27

I think the real point is that once you start picking out one group how long is it before another group gets added to the list..and then another as funding shrinks across the NHS as a whole.Who next? Alcoholics? The elderly and infirm.The disabled?UVF treatments?

Not treating people as a cost cutting exercise is not ultimately going to save money.It will just all be pushed onto social care which is already overstretched as witnessed by bed blocking..

04-09-2016, 07:27	#67
Maggy The Invisible Woman Cable Forum Mod Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: between Portsmouth and Southampton. Age: 73 Services: VM XL TV,50 MB VM BB,VM landline, Tivo Posts: 40,367	Re: Obese people and smokers to be refused surgery (now in review) I think the real point is that once you start picking out one group how long is it before another group gets added to the list..and then another as funding shrinks across the NHS as a whole.Who next? Alcoholics? The elderly and infirm.The disabled?UVF treatments? Not treating people as a cost cutting exercise is not ultimately going to save money.It will just all be pushed onto social care which is already overstretched as witnessed by bed blocking.. __________________ Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Shakespeare..