Brit doctors: don't treat people who make bad choices or get old

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This'll muss up yer hair.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../27/nhs127.xml

Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.

Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone.

About one in 10 hospitals already deny some surgery to obese patients and smokers, with restrictions most common in hospitals battling debt.

Some of our fellow Brit dwellars fit into these categories. My friends, I would do anything to get you care if you are denied it. Even if it is a financial burden, I will send you the money for a plane ticket so you can fly to Philadelphia; I will pick you up at the airport; and I will take you to the nearest hospital.

Do you know what the financial condition of your hospital is? It serves you well to find out.

Among the survey of 870 family and hospital doctors, almost 60 per cent said the NHS could not provide full healthcare to everyone and that some individuals should pay for services.

One in three said that elderly patients should not be given free treatment if it were unlikely to do them good for long. Half thought that smokers should be denied a heart bypass, while a quarter believed that the obese should be denied hip replacements.

Ninety-four per cent said that an alcoholic who refused to stop drinking should not be allowed a liver transplant, while one in five said taxpayers should not pay for "social abortions" and fertility treatment.