Ok, now this irritates the beejezus out of me and here is why.

What the UK Has in common with "obamacare" is beyond me. but lets forget that for a moment. As a past "QA reviewer for most of the major Health insurance companies in the US, Let me explain a few facts;

Currently, Healthcare companies in the US are doing just this very thing as a "Quality Assurance" Procedure. How many of you have had to get a second opinion before your provider wanted to do surgery? How many of you who needed surgery, had to wait while your doctor had to get "Prior Authorization to perform your surgery? Are you aware that your surgeon has to get authorization "after the fact" even in emergency situations. That your health insurance company can, and does decide an emergency as determined by your doctor(s) may not be an emergency, and can deny that surgery after you have had it.

Health insurance providers have, and do deny coverage for cases stated in the original post here in the US. When i was reviewing a case of a premature baby, it was becoming evident that the care would exceed a million dollars. As we reviewed the daily charts of this premie, we referred to the baby as our "Million dollar baby", and we were all deeply commited to its care. The CEO, called the nurse reviewers and QA people into a video conference and demanded that we tell the parent to take the baby off life support. The butt chewing we all received for not demanding this was done ourselves was outrageous. By the time the conference was over, the nurses and QA reviewer all quit on the spot. But the CEO called the hospital administrator and cut off all care. This was not the first time i had witnessed something like this, but it was my last. I have since left the Health insurance field all together. I have a conscience.

People, Wake Up, this is our health care, Corporate profit outweighing both medical care, which saved this babies life, and the "Right" of all of us to be treated with dignity, respect, and receive care that is between us and our doctors. This is the current system we live with. Dont blame this on "Obamacare", this has been in effect since the first HMO started in 1978, and continues today. When we all, conservative and liberal demand better we will get it. and not until. As a footnote, this baby survived, and lives a productive, normal life at the age of 15 today.

Sorry this is my first post, and a rant, but i just cant stay quiet on something so important.
really, I'd rather be; justfishin.