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A quick google led be to this example of a child receiving 5 months care after being born 18 weeks premature in an NHS hospital: https://www.lancsteachinghospi

• ceejayoz 5y ago
  See also: Stephen Hawking. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/i-would-not-have-survived-nhs-enabled-stephen-hawking-to-live-long-life https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/i-would-not-... > As the Obama administration sought to reform the US healthcare system in 2009, the US Investor’s Business Daily argued that Stephen Hawking “wouldn’t have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless”. > It was duly pointed out that Hawking was not only born and educated in England, but received more care than most from the nation’s health service. “I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS,” Hawking told the Guardian at the time. “I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.”
  • arethuza 5y ago
    Worth noting that Hawking won't have got special treatment because of who he was.