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July 23, 2007
Socialized Medicine Perk: Free Goodies For Addicts
Posted by Dave Blount at July 23, 2007 6:14 AM
Maybe socialized medicine isn't such an idiotic idea after all — provided you're a drug addict.
Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellent (NICE — I'm serious, that's what it goes by) will recommend that the National Health Service offer free TV sets, iPods, and best of all vouchers that apparently can be redeemed for drugs to heroin and cocaine addicts if they manage to stay clean long enough to pass a drug test.
The vouchers start at only £5 a test, but each time you take a test the payoff goes up — and the testing would typically occur three times a week.
Meanwhile, as Katherine Murphy of the Patients Association reports:
Some people with genuine disease are being forced to sell their homes for the medicines they need.
Patients are denied drugs for blindness, Alzheimer's, lung cancer, etc., under NICE rationing. That's what they get for having conditions that aren't self-inflicted.
On a tip from Matt.
