A recent ruling may allow medical practitioners to disallow appropriate treatment to patients if they feel that a patient's "lifestyle" will undermine the effectiveness of the treatment.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said that doctors who considered that a particular treatment might not be effective, or cost-effective, because of the lifestyle of the patient, may be entitled to withhold it.That's 'NICE'.
Speaking of the NICE report,
It concluded that clinical guidance should recommend a treatment for a particular age group only where there was clear evidence of a difference in the treatmentÂ’s effectiveness for that age group.(Emphasis added)
"Clear evidence."
I presume this means that if your British doctor says "This MAY help, but again it may not", the hospital isn't obliged to make the treatment available to the afflicted.
Well, there's a splendid argument for Socialized Medicine.
Or, as we refer to it in the States:
"Hillary Care"
Just one more reason, as if we needed one, why that . . . person . . . should never be elected to Public Office.
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