Is it time access to free NHS care was age limited?

Sapphire

BobQ wrote: »

Divide and Rule made Britain a dominant force in the world and is now quite endemic in the establishment. But its now being used as a weapon to make us fight each other rather than work for the common good. Boomers vs Non-Boomers; Old versus Young; Public versus Private Sector; Brexiters vs Remainers; House owners vs Renters; North vs South; Immigrants vs Non-immigrants.....

What ever happened to British tolerance

Agree with a lot of what you say, and in Britain there have always been forces that strongly disagree with each other. In the Georgian period and before, much of the quite fierce 'debate' was centred on religion via broadsheets. Now I guess it is often based on scapegoating various groups in society, with the basis of some 'arguments' being that certain groups 'deserve' more than others. Hence we now have the eugenics type of suggestions as posited by the OP. It is ugly.

antrobus

BobQ wrote: »

..What ever happened to British tolerance

Drowned out by the shouts of 'Tory scum'?:)

alancunningham

Sleazy wrote: »

Wasn't something similar tried in the late 1930's / early 1940's?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4

Yes, but they brought it back and it's called the DWP sanctioning policy now.

alancunningham

MPD wrote: »

Suggesting we let people die to line your own pocket, and you have the gall to call your proposed victims greedy!

Like this lot?


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/esa-wrag-disability-benefit-cut-disabled-mps-vote-tories-iain-duncan-smith-a6918556.html

Arklight

If ever a thread didn't need to be revived...

uberalles

ruperts wrote: »

Is it time access to free NHS care was age limited?

You mean somebody aged below forty but more specifically somebody who cannot appear to have access to his brain, which incidentally settles firmly between his bum cheeks?

Somebody like this perhaps Rupie?

An aged thread but it appears he has yet to grow up. Be worried everybody, this is our future.

LHW99

Deserves to die - perhaps - many live who deserve to die, and some die who deserve to live - can you give that to them? *
If not don't be too quick to limit NHS care.

* with apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien

armchaireconomist

The system you're proposing is one where your entitlement to life is dependant on wealth.


Have you considered joining the Conservative party? Jeremy Hunt would love you.

lookstraightahead

Crikey if we did as the op said my daughter would have no grandparents, who have been the ones to show her good work ethics and an invaluable moral code!

thepurplepixie

Cakeguts wrote: »

You are looking in the wrong place again. Older people are not obese, they don't binge drink, they don't have premature babies or use IVF they don't text and drive causing accidents.

What you need to worry about is who is going to pay for the health problems caused by obesity in your generation. Overweight unfit people who sit and watch television or play computer games get serious illnesses. Type 2 diabetes is increasing in young people. It use to be confined to the elderly.

Premature babies often have disabilities. Many of them will need care for life. IVF babies often have disabilities they will also need care for life all paid for by your generation's taxes.

A few years ago I spent some time with a friend in A&E they had something wrong with their eye. It was a Saturday night and the ambulances were bringing a steady stream of young drunks into the department. These drunks were taking up ambulances that could have been used for people who were ill. Most of the people in the A&E department of that hospital were young people who had been binge drinking.

No free contraceptives for the elderly, no abortions, STIs? Well maybe but not as much as the young.