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

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

No different? Can we make that a bumper sticker?

Universal health care: no different from current insurance coverage

Sure you can. It's not what i said, but if it makes you feel good, go right ahead.

Actually I believe that only occasionally are there cases where people are flatly denied coverage by their insurer, and when they do, it's big news. Somebody died of it recently.

Oh please. Are you trying to tell me that everyone with health insurance can get the latest most expensive fertility treatment from the provider of their choice? Even 80yo great-grannies?

You've just reminded me why I've never bothered to join in these "discussions". The American health insurance blinkers and obsession with the evil socialism rife in Europe make it pointless and impossible. You'd be bereft without Nationalised Healthcare to fear and mock. Natiionalised healthcare will never work here because no-one will ever give it a chance. So let's just forget it and carry on.