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It’s not clear if she is being supported by NHS or fully private insurance. The UK does exercise triage on long term cases. The flip side is no country can aff
by master_crab 3y ago
It’s not clear if she is being supported by NHS or fully private insurance.
The UK does exercise triage on long term cases. The flip side is no country can afford to maintain every patient with a terminal condition indefinitely and doctors are allowed to exercise judgement.
- kmlx 3y agoit’s the NHS: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66673511 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66673511 of course they implement triage. but if the person has enough money they can go private.
- free_glamorgan 3y agoI've never heard "traige" used with such negative connotations! FWIW, the term used by the NHS is "QALYS", or "Quality-adjusted life year". Yes, these calculations are made at all levels of health care.
- tengwar2 3y agoAccording to the article, this is not simply a matter of cost, but of actively preventing her travelling to Canada for an experimental treatment. There is still probably a cost element involved in preparing her for travel, but no open-ended commitment to funding ICU care.