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UK Socialized Medicine Now Rationing Hearing Aids
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On January 26, 2015 @ 9:25 am In The Point | 3 Comments
What people forget to mention is that there are a lot of panels before the death panels. They control your quality of life and they are also inescapable.
The NHS has started to ration hearing aids for the deaf – with thousands of people being offered only one device when experts say they need two.
Specialists recommend that patients who are losing their hearing in both ears should be offered two aids, but some NHS authorities have started to offer just one to such people, in a cost-cutting exercise that saves a modest £90 per person.
Paul Breckell, chief executive of the charity, described the cutbacks as ‘alarming’ and added: ‘With only one hearing aid, the ability to understand speech from the unaided ear can deteriorate over time to the point that it can’t be recovered.’
Cuts are inevitable and they also inevitably target the easiest victims. No one is going to ration sex change operations for trannies because they are a loud, vocal and politically active victim group.
But euthanasia for the elderly and small children is easy. Giving the disabled one hearing aid instead of two and asking them to make do is also easy. And there are always going to be cuts somewhere because the NHS, like all socialized medicine and big government, does not exist for the patients, but for its own sake.
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