Friday, June 30, 2006

Smokers' and alcoholics' health care costs

More and more doctors in the UK's NHS believe that those subjecting themselves to unnecessarily high health risks by means of smoking, drinking or eating a lot ought to cover the costs for their health care (as far as their illness is related to their lifestyle choices) themselves. The Guardian reports that 4 out of 10 NHS doctors believe smokers who need heart bypasses and alcoholics who need liver transplants should not get them free of charge through the NHS.
33% believe that procedures such as IVF should be covered by patients themselves.
Here are the details.

Ethical Progress on the Abortion Care Frontiers on the African Continent

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