{"id":1403,"date":"2012-03-09T21:47:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T05:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2012-03-09T21:47:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T05:47:14","slug":"patient-lifestyles-cited-as-reason-to-deny-services-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Patient lifestyles cited as reason to deny services in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s National Health Service is denying access to various services provided by the state health care system because of patient lifestyles.\u00a0 Smokers and those who are considered overweight are denied some operations or procedures in about a quarter of the country&#8217;s health care regions.\u00a0 Physicians and others are critical of the decisions because they say they are being made for fiscal, not clinical reasons.\u00a0 Health care administrators claim that they are medically justified. 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