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Widening health inequalities match UK poverty patterns
►http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jul2011/heal-j16.shtml

British society today is characterised above all by its vast social polarisation. As the majority of the population faces a day to day struggle to get by, the nation’s super-rich enjoy more privilege than ever before, with their wealth rising by £77 billion to £336 billion in 2010, their biggest gains in 22 years, according to the Sunday Times’ “Rich List”.

Health inequality is set to worsen, as cuts and privatisation are applied to the National Health Service (NHS) as part of the austerity plans of the coalition government, which seeks to shift the cost of the more than £1 trillion bank bailouts onto the backs of the population.

Rapport accablant sur la paupérisation galopante de la société anglaise et la dégradation de l’état sanitaire général et d’une explosion des inégalités.
Vu les effets de la pauvreté sur la santé et l’espérance de vie, on peut réfléchir à l’idée d’un génocide ciblé par privation des moyens d’existence, et pas qu’en Angleterre.

New York Times questions spending on “Extremely Expensive Cancer Drugs”
►http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jul2011/canc-j09.shtml

This brings us to another question. The entire discussion on the pages of the Times on what they describe as the outrageous amounts of money being squandered on Medicare is framed within the following argument: The government simply cannot afford this wasteful spending and all Americans must begin to live within their means and share in the sacrifice. The obvious choices for cutbacks are pricey drugs and treatments that really do very little, and “only” prolong life a few months at best for those who are going to die soon anyway.

Totally left out this equation are the trillions of dollars in taxpayers’ money that have been spent to bail out the banks, and to finance a growing list of imperialist wars. Another untouchable topic for the Times is the billions of dollars in profits being hauled in by the health care industry, including the insurance companies, the giant hospital chains and the pharmaceuticals.

These corporate interests stand to profit handsomely as a consequence of the Obama administration’s health care “reform”—while working class families and retirees will suffer as a result of the hundreds of billions of dollars cut from Medicare, Medicaid and other vital social programs.

In relation to the drugs discussed in the July 6 editorial, Provenge and Avastin, the Times also chooses not to address another inconvenient fact: the large sums of money being made by their manufacturers.

#santé #argent #pharmabaron #profitation #inégalités

Et oui, que chacun vive selon ses moyens parce que la recherche ne vaut que si elle rapporte.
Autrement dit, après des années de médecine à deux vitesses, les Américains vont retrouver une seule vitesse, mais juste pour les riches. Les autres peuvent crever !