ANOTHER NIGHTMARE FROM THE UK'S NHS - PROVING STATE-RUN HEALTHCARE SUCKS

YORKSHIRE TODAY: Pensioner is refused sight drugs – until he goes blind

A RETIRED policeman is going blind – because a Yorkshire health trust will not pay for treatment that could save his sight. Leslie Howard, also an ex-Royal Military policeman and former prison officer, suffers from a degenerative eye condition. The drugs needed to save his sight are available on the NHS in other parts of the country.

But Mr Howard, 76, has been told by health chiefs not to expect a penny of NHS treatment until he goes blind in one eye and starts losing sight in the other.

He fears that after a lifetime of public service the decision by North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust could plunge him into total blindness and leave him and his invalid wife Mary Ann, 70, housebound.

As his case led to a new row over NHS "health rationing", Mr Howard, of Acomb, York, said: "The problem is we have lived too long and are just pieces of meat now – a nuisance.

"I was advised to go private but was quoted £1,000 an injection for who knows how many injections. I can't afford that kind of money. I've paid tens of thousands of pounds in taxes and to know that I will now lose my sight because I can't afford private treatment is diabolical."

IF TAX-FINANCED/STATE-RUN "UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE" SUCKS THERE, THEN IT MAKES NO SENSE TO DO IT HERE - YET THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT ALL OF THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES FOR THE PRESIDENCY ARE ADVOCATING.

THEY ARE PANDERING, DEMAGOGUING LEFT-WING IDIOTS. DON'T FALL FOR IT!

ANOTHER NHS NIGHTMARE STORY HERE. ANOTHER HERE. (AND THOSE'RE JUST FROM TODAY!)