NHS Expenditure and Our Right To Life
How much is a life worth?
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Guidelines (Nice) has ruled for the first time that saving a life cannot be justified at any cost, in a review of its ethical guidelines.
The ruling - made by the board of the controversial organisation - contradicts advice it received from its own ‘Citizens Council’ which offers advice from a representative sample of the general public…
It has now rejected the so-called “rule of rescue” which stipulates that people facing death should be treated regardless of the costs. The rule is based on the natural impulse to aid individuals in trouble. (The Telegraph)
WTF are they on? The NHS is there to save people. It is there to provide healthcare to those who need it. Everyone who needs it. Only prohibitive cost for minimal benefit should be denied.
If it will not spend our money on saving our lives, what is the point of the NHS?! If I get ill, I want to know that the NHS will do everything it can to make me better - no matter the cost. Otherwise why do we pay taxes for it?!
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