UK To Eliminate Millions of Operations to Cut Costs

Health care rationing in the UK is alive and well in an effort to cut costs.

Millions of patients face losing NHS care as bosses prepare to axe treatments to make £20billion of savings by 2014, a top doctor has warned.

Among procedures being targeted by health trusts are hernias, joint replacements, ear and nose procedures, varicose veins and cataract surgery.

Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the British Medical Association’s consultants committee, warned NHS bosses wanted ‘wholesale reductions in budgets’.

He said primary care trusts – which commission care – are already compiling lists of ‘low value’ operations that would no longer be provided.

How about a deal where if you work for the government or a non-profit, you get the surgery, but if you work for the private sector, you do not? Don't be surprised if that's coming to Obamacare.