NANNYSTATE IDIOCY FROM THE TORIES

SADLY, TORIE BOSS CAMERON IS PROVING TO BE MORE LIKE CHIRAC THAN SARKOZY OR THATCHER:

THIS IS LONDION (VIA GINA COBB):

Patients who refuse to change their unhealthy lifestyles should not be treated by the NHS, the Conservatives said today.

In a bid to ease spiralling levels of obesity and other health concerns, a Tory panel said certain treatments should be denied to patients who refuse to co-operate with health professionals and live healthier lifestyles.

And those who do manage to improve their general health by losing weight and quitting smoking, for example, would receive "Health Miles" cards.

Points earned could then be used to pay for health-related products such as gym membership and fresh vegetables.

The aim is a shift in the NHS towards preventing disease and ill-health rather than having to treat it.

The proposal was one of a raft of measures suggested in a review of public services, ordered by David Cameron.

DAILY MAIL (UK):

"It is inconsistent with the concept of the responsible citizen to imagine that it is realistic for citizens, having paid their taxes, to expect that the state will underwrite the health implications of any lifestyle decision they choose to make," they say.

GINA ASKS:

When socialized medicine program fails, the "solution" is to impose tighter and tighter arbitrary controls on patients.

How will those controls work? Will everyone who engages in behaviors the medical establishment deems high risk -- from high risk pregnancies to alternative lifestyles -- be denied medical care? Or will only certain unhealthy lifestyles be penalized, while other "politically correct" unhealthy lifestyles receive a free pass?

D' YA THINK THEY'LL INCLUDE HOMOSEXUALITY AS A RISKY LIFESTYLE AND REFUSE TO PAY FOR HIV TREATMENT!?!? NOPE. THAT WOULDN'T BE PC.

THIS EFFORT BY CAMERON IS REALLY JUST ABOUT AN ELITE FOISTING THEIR VALUES ON THE MASSES - "FOR THE COMMON GOOD" OF COURSE.

BY HANDING OVER HEALTHCARE TO THE GOVERNMENT, WE'VE GIVEN THIS ELITE THE POWER TO INFLICT THEIR PC VALUES ON ALL OF US. THIS IS STALINISM.

WHAT MAKES IT WORSE IS THAT SO MANY OF THE NANNYSTATE GOVERNMENTS ALSO CONTROL PENSIONS. THIS CREATES A CONFLICT OF INTEREST ON THE STATE:

THEY SAVE TWICE BY DENYING YOU CARE AND LETTING YOU DIE:

THEY SAVE THE MEDICAL EXPENSE AND THE PENSION PAYOUT.

CAMERON IS NOT A THATCHER CONSERVATIVE - A HAYEKIAN. HE IS A BLAIRITE LEFTIST. THATCHER SHOULD SPEAK OUT. AND THE REAL CONSERVATIVES - LED BY ANCRAM - SHOULD RETAKE THE PARTY. (MORE HERE.)

CAMERON IS BAD. BROWN IS WORSE. HILLARY AND THE DEMS: WORSER STILL.