This is the big problem with socialized medicine.
Some committee of dumb people who are not you, or your family-gets to decide how health resources are allocated. Your kid may not be able to walk, but hey-at least some slutty, single mom's self esteem and tits will grow!
In this case, there was money in the system for a single mother of two whose flat chest was causing her total emotional distress. Her flast chest was preventing her from fulfilling her dream-running away from her kids, dumping them with her parents and purusing a dream as a topless model!
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE WRONG WITH THAT?
The same NHS system cannot find the money to fund an operation that would help a toddler with CP walk!
PRIORITIES.
Here are the details:
"But the case is in stalk contrast to
that of Miss Cunningham - the aspiring glamour model had her breasts
enlarged to size 36DD on the NHS. The surgery to 22-year-old cost taxpayers £4,800. She convinced doctors, at St James’s Hospital in Leeds - a few miles from where specialists could help the two-year-old walk again - to operate by claiming her flat chest was ‘ruining her life’ and causing emotional distress."
"But
critics were appalled at the decision, branding it a waste of
taxpayers’ cash. Under NHS guidelines, cosmetic surgery should be funded
only in rare circumstances ‘to protect a person’s health’."
"Miss
Cunningham, who works in telesales, says her new breasts have given her
the ‘confidence’ she needs to pursue her dream of topless modelling."
"She hopes to emulate former Page 3 girl Katie Price."
"The
unmarried mother, from Leeds, plans to leave her children Harley, five,
and Frankie, two, with her parents while she chases her dream."
"Her operation was recommended by her GP before being approved by her local Primary Care Trust."
"But
when approached by journalists, health bosses were unable to say why
such an enormous cleavage was necessary for Miss Cunningham’s wellbeing."
"Matthew
Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'Taxpayers
expect scarce NHS resources to be used to help people with serious
medical needs. 'People
will therefore be stupefied that the same system which funded a boob
job for an aspiring glamour model will not allow treatment that would
enable a little boy to walk unaided. 'It certainly suggests that the NHS has a skewed sense of priorities.'"
