83-Year-Old Woman Denied Health Care Over "Carbon Footprint"

This story comes out of the UK where an elderly woman was denied healthcare from a practioner who had served her for the last 30 years because of her ‘carbon footprint”.  What is a carbon footprint you ask?  A carbon footprint is the amount of CO2 we release each year.  By that I mean, you, me, him..  individually.  Bizarre isn’t it?  It’s coming to America too and they call it ‘Obamacare’.

-Mort

If you want to get a glimpse of what life will be like under Obamacare, just look to the UK, where government-run health care continues to produce ludicrous stories like this – a pensioner who had visited the same doctor’s practice for 30 years was told to find a new GP because of concerns over the “carbon footprint” of her 2 mile round trip.

After 83-year-old Avril Mulcahy complained about a doctor, she was told that the practice had a problem over her “green traveling issues” and ordered her to re-register at another practice.

The the West Road Surgery in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, wrote a letter to the pensioner stating, “Our greatest concern is for your health and convenience but also taking into consideration green travelling issues. Re: Carbon footprints and winter weather conditions, we feel it would be advisable for patients to register at surgeries nearer to where they live. We would be very grateful if you could make the necessary arrangements to re-register at another practice.”

“When I read through the letter, I found it absolutely ridiculous they were saying the reason was to decrease their carbon footprint,” Mulcahy told the London Telegraph. “I have been a patient at the practice for 30 years now, and there has never been any problem.”

Mulcahy added that the episode had caused stress and prompted worries that she would not be able to obtain her prescription medication.

In the UK, patients cannot seek private health care without first being referred by a National Health Service GP. This can often take weeks because it is like a lottery attempting to get an NHS appointment. Government-run health care in the United Kingdom is notoriously poor and horror stories about wrong legs being amputated and other medical nightmares are routinely in the news.

Given the fact that death panels, euphemistically called “Payment Advisory Boards,” are a part of Obamacare, expect to see health authorities in the U.S. think up similarly inventive ways to deny treatment to the elderly.

Read more at the source here:  http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/april2012/050412_carbon_footprint.htm