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To: Brumar89 who wrote (501385)	8/5/2009 9:46:57 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574313

The Telegraph headlines, Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections: What does what's practiced in England have to do with the US? Al

To: Brumar89 who wrote (501385)	8/5/2009 7:57:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574313

Not surprisingly, Orly, this part of the original article was omitted.....its seems to me to be a key statement: "A spokesman for NICE said its guidance did not recommend that injections were stopped for all patients, but only for those who had been in pain for less than a year, where the cause was not known." How is this any worse than insurance plans here in the states refusing to pay for an operation to save someone's life for some obscure reason created by the insurance company?