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Originally Posted by Lil
Is it the principle or the 30 BMI cut off you don't like, DH? It seems to me that the principle of letting overweight people who've knackered their knees get new ones is no different from letting alcoholics who have buggered up their liver have a new one.  |
Oh please. I don't know many people here who have had hip and knee replacements since I'm 30 and I don't hang out with pensioners, but of the few I know who have had them...and they were youngish, in their 50s and 60s...none were fat. None. It's so refreshing that you assume that obese people will automatically require hip and knee replacements or that those replacements are guaranteed to fail. As if that never happens with thin people. *eyeroll*
If there is no clinical reason to deny the operations to everyone with a BMI over 30, then one has to assume that the reason they're doing it is to pare down the waiting lists since a large percentage of British adults have a BMI over 30. One also has to assume that the NHS trusts in question are trying to save money, since Suffolk is chronically underfunded but is popular with pensioners, who create a much larger burden on the NHS than any other demographic. Or has it suddenly become OK to deny fat people care in a country that wrings its hands and blames ITSELF for the 7/7 bombings?