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Originally Posted by disruptivehair
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?
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I was interested in the apparent conflict, DH - you said the NHS shouldn't have given George Best a liver transplant because he was an alcoholic but you are saying it should give new knees to obese people. A food addiction is acceptable but an alcohol addiction isn't?
Not sure what the London bombings have got to do with the price of fish, though.
