{"id":366189,"date":"2010-02-26T11:52:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/inside-socialized-medicines-bizarre-rationing-scheme-40056\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:52:06","slug":"inside-socialized-medicines-bizarre-rationing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/366189","title":{"rendered":"Inside socialized medicine’s bizarre rationing scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"
Inside socialized medicine’s bizarre rationing scheme<\/b> <\/p>\n

In Britain, weight-loss surgery has become a game of "survival of the fattest." As it turns out, funds for the procedures are limited, so only the fattest of the fat are getting approved. <\/p>\n

The rest are told they either need to pork up or move to a postal code where there’s a lower demand for the surgeries. <\/p>\n

Welcome to the world of socialized medicine. Doughnut, anyone? <\/p>\n

Forget for a moment that these surgeries are bad news to begin with…because this isn’t about that. It’s about what happens when you ration health care — turning major medical decisions into crass lotteries. <\/p>\n

British guidelines say stomach-shrinking surgery is recommended for anyone with a BMI over 40 and another condition — like diabetes — that would be improved if they weren’t so fat. They also need to have tried other forms of weight loss first, and failed. <\/p>\n

Put yourself their shoes for a moment. You’re a loyal plus- sized British taxpayer. You want the surgery…your doc approves…you meet the guidelines for it…let’s get started, right? <\/p>\n

Sorry, old chap…but the guidelines have gone to the dickens. The only pounds that really count are the sterling ones they use for money over there — and there’s not enough of those to fix everyone’s fat. <\/p>\n

Since local bean counters actually get to make the final decisions, you can try moving to an area with more cash in the kitty…or you can eat fish and chips until you move to the top of the list. That’s if you don’t drop dead first — there’s a reason they call it "morbidly obese." <\/p>\n

Laugh at the Brits if you want — but don’t laugh too hard or too long. This kind of bizarre logic is common in socialized medicine, and while you’re busy laughing, ObamaCare is being rewritten and reworked with our oversized bellies (and ever-shrinking wallets) in mind. <\/p>\n

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inside socialized medicine’s bizarre rationing scheme In Britain, weight-loss surgery has become a game of "survival of the fattest." As it turns out, funds for the procedures are limited, so only the fattest of the fat are getting approved. The rest are told they either need to pork up or move to a postal code […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}