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> I have just watched a depressing exchange in Parliament between government
> and opposition about waiting lists and rationing. When will the politicians
> start treating this subject intelligently?
>
> Rationing exists and has always existed in the health service and whilst noone
> likes rationing when it prevents them from receiving or imparting care that
> they think is appropriate it is inevitable that the public purse can't stretch
> to encompass every call upon it.
>
> What is needed is proper debate about the criteria upon which rationing should
> be based and the politicians must set out their stall. Totally disengenuous
> statements like Alan Milburn's today which appear to deny the existence of
> rationing without actually doing so don't take us anywhere.
>
> Currently rationing affects impotence treatment, infertility, MS, dentistry to
> name but a few instances. When has the basis for these decisions had a proper
> airing in Parliament?
>
> I think we need a Royal Commission on rationing in the Health Service to which
> all interested parties can give evidence and the the report of the Commission
> could, hopefully be debated in the country at large and then in Parliament.
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