British medical socialism: You're too old for heart surgery. You'll have to just die.

NHS chiefs tell grandmother, 61, she's 'too old' for £5,000 life-saving heart surgery

UK Daily Mail: February 28, 2008

A woman of 61 was refused a routine heart operation by a hard-up NHS trust for being too old.

Dorothy Simpson suffers from an irregular heartbeat and is at increased risk of a stroke. But health chiefs refused to allow the procedure which was recommended by her specialist.

The school secretary was stunned by the ruling...