Socialist medicine: Little British girl denied surgery due to 'budget cuts'

[Theowl32]

The family of a six-year-old girl with cerebral palsy have condemned 'cruel' NHS bosses after an operation to help her walk was cancelled at the last moment - because of budget cuts.

Shannon Bowley can only shuffle around on her bottom or take a few slow steps with the aid of a walking frame.

She was due to have a life-changing operation this Friday which would have loosened her muscles to help her walk independently.

But just six days before surgery, her family were dealt a devastating blow when they received a letter informing them that NHS England had cancelled funding for the operation.


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[Edgetho]

What's wrong with you?

Your priorities are obviously skewed. If the NHS were to spend money on that little girl, that would mean less money for them to spend on sex-change operations and the like.

Get with the program

 

[Jarlaxle]

Is there somewhere I can send a donation to bring her to Johns Hopkins?

 

[NYcarbineer]

What are you conservatives complaining about?

This situation represents the conservative model...

...the government spending less on healthcare for the needy, thus leaving them to fend for themselves,

rely on charity,

or go without.

That is in fact the conservative IDEAL when it comes to healthcare.

 

[Jarlaxle]

You truly are a despicable turd.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

No no....that could never ever happen here.

 

[Redfish]

Get ready America. We are next.

 

[NYcarbineer]

You truly are a despicable turd.

That's the most intelligent response you were able to come up with?

What did I get wrong? What did I say that isn't an accurate representation of the conservative model for healthcare?

Say this was the US. Conservatives want to cut Medicaid, do they not? If conservatives got their way, and cut Medicaid, and someone who would have otherwise had this operation paid for BY THE GOVERNMENT was no longer eligible,

because of conservative cuts to Medicaid,

you would be outraged?

lol, take a hike.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Get ready America. We are next.

When? When conservatives get into power and make massive cuts in the government funding of healthcare?

Of course. Then, someone who would have had the government pay for the operation would no longer be covered by the government,

because of the cuts.

 

[PredFan]

What are you conservatives complaining about?

This situation represents the conservative model...

...the government spending less on healthcare for the needy, thus leaving them to fend for themselves,

rely on charity,

or go without.

That is in fact the conservative IDEAL when it comes to healthcare.

Incredibly lame dodge noted.

 

[JakeStarkey]

"The treatment was not considered to offer “value for money or clinical effectiveness” compared to other procedures." This sounds like Antares' insurance industry in the U.S.

The university is trying to make alternate arrangements.

 

[Jarhead]

What are you conservatives complaining about?

This situation represents the conservative model...

...the government spending less on healthcare for the needy, thus leaving them to fend for themselves,

rely on charity,

or go without.

That is in fact the conservative IDEAL when it comes to healthcare.

Pure spin and you know it.

But I agree...."despicable terd" was not an overly intelligent response.

 

[NYcarbineer]

What are you conservatives complaining about?

This situation represents the conservative model...

...the government spending less on healthcare for the needy, thus leaving them to fend for themselves,

rely on charity,

or go without.

That is in fact the conservative IDEAL when it comes to healthcare.

Incredibly lame dodge noted.

Dodge? I summed up the situation precisely. As yet no one has taken that to task.

 

[Sallow]

That's just terrible.

Glad to see you guys so concerned with Brits.

When are you going to start getting concerned with Americans.

Two Arizona Medicaid recipients denied potentially life-saving organ transplants have died, even as Arizona doctors, transplant survivors and some lawmakers push to restore health care benefits slashed last fall.

On Oct. 1, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System stopped paying for seven types of transplants that the state's GOP governor, Jan Brewer, and GOP-led legislature said they could no longer afford. The state faces a projected $1 billion program deficit by July 2011.
Arizona Transplant Patients Die After State Cuts Medical Insurance - ABC News

Thanks to Conservative Heroine and Queen Bitch of the Desert...three Americans died.

 

[NYcarbineer]

What are you conservatives complaining about?

This situation represents the conservative model...

...the government spending less on healthcare for the needy, thus leaving them to fend for themselves,

rely on charity,

or go without.

That is in fact the conservative IDEAL when it comes to healthcare.

Pure spin and you know it.

But I agree...."despicable terd" was not an overly intelligent response.

What is spin? Specifically.

Let's put it this way. How would this person get this operation under an ideal conservative model of a healthcare system?

And how would it be paid for?

 

[Jarhead]

Get ready America. We are next.

When? When conservatives get into power and make massive cuts in the government funding of healthcare?

Of course. Then, someone who would have had the government pay for the operation would no longer be covered by the government,

because of the cuts.

putting aside the "us against you guys" attitude....

You are correct. As the ACA is set up, once it is in full swing it would be irresponsible to try to defund it or repeal it...or even cut the budget for it.

That is why many on the right wanted it repealed or defunded before it started.

Now, I know...we can argue "why defund it before it started"....we see it from two different positions and that will never change.

But as silly and irresponsible it seemed for those on the right to continually try to stop it dead in its tracks, there was rhyme and reason to it as it pertains to our ideology and concern about the law itself.

 

[NYcarbineer]

That's just terrible.

Glad to see you guys so concerned with Brits.

When are you going to start getting concerned with Americans.

Two Arizona Medicaid recipients denied potentially life-saving organ transplants have died, even as Arizona doctors, transplant survivors and some lawmakers push to restore health care benefits slashed last fall.

On Oct. 1, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System stopped paying for seven types of transplants that the state's GOP governor, Jan Brewer, and GOP-led legislature said they could no longer afford. The state faces a projected $1 billion program deficit by July 2011.
Arizona Transplant Patients Die After State Cuts Medical Insurance - ABC News

Thanks to Conservative Heroine and Queen Bitch of the Desert...three Americans died.

All of the sudden our conservative contingent here has become an enthusiastic advocate for a fully funded single payer socialist healthcare system,

and, amusingly, they've done so without realizing it.

 

[Jarhead]

What are you conservatives complaining about?

This situation represents the conservative model...

...the government spending less on healthcare for the needy, thus leaving them to fend for themselves,

rely on charity,

or go without.

That is in fact the conservative IDEAL when it comes to healthcare.

Pure spin and you know it.

But I agree...."despicable terd" was not an overly intelligent response.

What is spin? Specifically.

Let's put it this way. How would this person get this operation under an ideal conservative model of a healthcare system?

And how would it be paid for?

what you are asking me to do is to argue our beliefs...something we do all day long on here and nothing ever changes.

I am personally sick and tired of both sides spinning the INTENTIONS of the other side. Yes, you believe the result will be what you stated. And maybe it would be.

We believe the result will be different and by no means "HOPE" for the result you described.

 

[Jarhead]

That's just terrible.

Glad to see you guys so concerned with Brits.

When are you going to start getting concerned with Americans.

Two Arizona Medicaid recipients denied potentially life-saving organ transplants have died, even as Arizona doctors, transplant survivors and some lawmakers push to restore health care benefits slashed last fall.

On Oct. 1, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System stopped paying for seven types of transplants that the state's GOP governor, Jan Brewer, and GOP-led legislature said they could no longer afford. The state faces a projected $1 billion program deficit by July 2011.
Arizona Transplant Patients Die After State Cuts Medical Insurance - ABC News

Thanks to Conservative Heroine and Queen Bitch of the Desert...three Americans died.

All of the sudden our conservative contingent here has become an enthusiastic advocate for a fully funded single payer socialist healthcare system,

and, amusingly, they've done so without realizing it.

Actually, from day one I believed if the ACA was passed and survived SCOTUS decisions, a single payer system would be more efficient both financially and overall healthcare wise.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Get ready America. We are next.

When? When conservatives get into power and make massive cuts in the government funding of healthcare?

Of course. Then, someone who would have had the government pay for the operation would no longer be covered by the government,

because of the cuts.

putting aside the "us against you guys" attitude....

You are correct. As the ACA is set up, once it is in full swing it would be irresponsible to try to defund it or repeal it...or even cut the budget for it.

That is why many on the right wanted it repealed or defunded before it started.

Now, I know...we can argue "why defund it before it started"....we see it from two different positions and that will never change.

But as silly and irresponsible it seemed for those on the right to continually try to stop it dead in its tracks, there was rhyme and reason to it as it pertains to our ideology and concern about the law itself.

And how does this costly operation get paid for under the conservative model, whatever that is?

Certainly the government wouldn't pay for it, would it?