Socialized medicine.... *LINK*
"England, which announced that smokers and the obese will be denied most surgeries until the patient’s lifestyle meets NHS standards."
This is how it always goes. Socialized medicine is not about medicine at all...it's about control.
You're too fat...you smoke...you own a gun...you vote conservative...you're a Christian...you don't like gay marriage and had the gall to say so...you drive an SUV or a pickup truck...you don't believe in anthropocentric global climate change...you use petroleum products and by-products...you believe America is great...you know liberals are full of chit...etc.
Why...you're just too deplorable to let live.
We don't think we can get by with euthanizing you...yet, so we'll just deny you life saving medicine.