For John, BLUF:  If we give health care over to the Government the treatment of some may well improve, but others will face a rationing they had not previously seen, to balance the books.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Women with obese male partners will be denied IVF treatment, rules NHS group

Here is the sub-headline:

Decision comes amid 'unprecedented financial challenges' due to 'stretched' budgets

Acronym Alert:  IVF is In-Vitro Fertilization.

Remember, it is the United Kingdom, and just one of the several local National Health Service Groups.

From The Independent (UK) and Reporter Tom Embury-Dennis, Friday 9 March 2018.

Here is the lede plus three:

Women who have obese partners will be denied fertility treatment in a bid to cut costs by the Bath and North East Somerset clinical commissioning group (CCG).

If their male partner has a body mass index over 30 – something suffered by more than a fifth of British men - women will be barred from IVF.

The decision was made in the face of “unprecedented financial challenges” due to “stretched” NHS budgets, the CCG said.

The move was in line with NICE guidance on fertility that says men with a BMI over 30 are less likely to be able to conceive, said its clinical chair, Dr Ian Orpen.

Not quite "death panels", but still, a pretty drastic curtailment of treatment.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff