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: Well, Pete, I am not able to address Ms.
: Packer's statement that she was denied
: "potentially life-saving chemotherapy
: treatments" for I am not a physician.
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: In the USA cost free cancer treatment (and
: all forms of health care) is available in
: county hospitals for those who lack
: sufficient, or no insurance cover leading me
: to believe that the story being reported
: here lacks some important details. County
: hospitals lack carpets, and other hotel
: features that are a regular feature in
: private health care facilities. In addition
: there are charitable organisations providing
: free health care support across the major
: cities of the USA for those without
: insurance cover, or inadequate insurance
: cover. Dental treatment also features as a
: free service provided by dentists
: volunteering their services.
Sounds very utopian Alex but, in reality, I doubt it is. Australia offers a "free dental service". Access to the service is considerably limited...
"Current funding for public oral health services allows for treatment of only about 20% of the eligible group, leaving some 80% without public treatment. Some seek care in the private sector, generally for relief of pain, which means that they receive only limited and compromised oral health care; some do not access any care."
https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/df234a9a-5c47-4483-9cf7-15ce162d3461/aihw-den-230.pdf.aspx
Publicly funded and charitable health and welfare services in Australia are met with huge demand and substantial levels of unmet or delayed service. One can be sure the situation in the U.S., with a less generous approach to social welfare, would be worse.
: On a more practicable level it is a fact of
: life that there are physicians, and nurses
: who will provide higher dosages of morphine
: for terminally ill patients to accelerate
: the inevitable. These actions are secret,
: not recorded, illegal, and do not need the
: input of parliamentary legislation.
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One would hope that those who perform such actions appreciate and consider the profound significance and seriousness of intervening in human life and death.
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