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2017-08-02 Government

Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in 'most severe ever' rationing in the NHS

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Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-02 09:13|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Huh, no mention of habitual drug users.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-02 10:09|| 2017-08-02 10:09|| Front Page Top

#2 ...or alcoholics. The virtue police with a death penalty! Next car and motorcycle drivers - its a choice not an emergency!

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-02 10:40|| 2017-08-02 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 The use of BMI is troubling, as it is almost universally regarded as complete nonsense.

Posted by Iblis 2017-08-02 12:00|| 2017-08-02 12:00|| Front Page Top

#4 $$$ is why the NHS Death Panel deemed baby Gerard must die.

Posted by Spike Spomoter7482 2017-08-02 12:04|| 2017-08-02 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 There always seems to be enough funding to pay for the apparatchiks and their families...

Posted by magpie 2017-08-02 12:22|| 2017-08-02 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 $$$ is why the NHS Death Panel deemed baby Gerard must die

Money is why the NHS refused to treat Baby Gerard. Control is why they refused to allow the parents to spend their own money -- raised by a Go Fund Me, as I recall -- to take their infant to America for an experimental treatment that would have benefitted future patients even if it did not cure their son. They refused even to allow the parents to take the baby home to die, insisting it be kept much greater expense in the hospital until the end.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-02 12:50|| 2017-08-02 12:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Yet bunghole bandits get their self inflicted expensive AIDS treatments.

Posted by Albert Dribble4334 2017-08-02 14:29|| 2017-08-02 14:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Accompanying poll indicates that nearly half the poll voters think this is a good idea. The rest are obese smokers, no doubt. Sigh.

Posted by KBK 2017-08-02 18:52|| 2017-08-02 18:52|| Front Page Top

#9 BMI. I'll put it like this; I'd probably need a 5lb weight to SCUBA dive and I am listed as overweight. It is ridiculous.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-08-02 18:55|| 2017-08-02 18:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Let it apply to MPs and their staff equally.

Posted by Frank G 2017-08-02 21:09|| 2017-08-02 21:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Let it apply to MPs and their staff equally. Silly Frank - some are more equal than others. I think an Englishman coined that phrase.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-08-02 21:28|| 2017-08-02 21:28|| Front Page Top

#12 From THIS SITE:

Although BMI does accurately calculate the proportion of one’s weight in relation to one’s height, it falls flat on at least a few grounds. For one, it does not differentiate whatsoever between fat mass and muscle mass. For example, let us assume that we are a highly-muscular or fit person with a low body fat percentage. It is possible that, due to a high percentage of muscle mass, our BMI would place us in the overweight category, even though we actually have a lesser percentage of body fat than a non-athletic person in the normal category.
Likewise, BMI does not take into account bone density as existing separate from fat. As described by NPR’s Keith Devlin, bone is both denser than muscle as well twice as dense as fat. As a result, an athletic person with a lot of muscle, strong bones, and low fat would have a BMI index of overweight or even obese, even if his or her lifestyle and body were in fact, very healthy.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-08-02 22:11|| 2017-08-02 22:11|| Front Page Top

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