U.K. doctors and hospitals want to deny free care to chronically unhealthy and unworthy citizens.
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Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors
health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone.
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An unmentioned side benefit is the reduction of welfare and housing and probably justice system burdens as the unfit have to face the process of natural selection.
It's already been happening:
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About one in 10 hospitals already deny some surgery to obese patients and smokers, with restrictions most common in hospitals battling debt.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../27/nhs127.xml
I wonder how long the livers of chronic beer swillers can hold on.
