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| Britain Considers Denying Health Care Based on Age |
| 2005-05-06 |
| A British ministry is proposing to deny medical treatment to patients based on age — a move seen as the "ultimate end" for universal health care. A spokesperson for The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said that "if there is a justifiable clinical reason to not provide a treatment for certain age groups, not just older people, that will be O.K., if this treatment...could not be offered. "We have said there has to be clinical evidence when discriminating on grounds of age." Critics have raised concern that the policy could lead to the elderly being denied some services... Commenting on the rationing proposal, Britain's Birmingham Post said: "The fact that people in their 80s and 90s regularly undergo successful operations underlines how dangerous it would be to assume that old age automatically equates to a hopeless case." |
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