Do you think thin anorexic people are putting burden on the NHS?

Question

Okay saz 17, you answered my question, did have to be so rude!

Answer 1

most definitely yes.

Answer 2

No. Anorexia is a medical and mental health issue that needs dealing with. It is no more a burden than that of the requirement knee and hip replacements in people who are overweight, or even people that need ongoing treatment for asthma, etc, because people who are anorexic cannot help the way their brain works anymore than other people can control their bodies when born with an illness.

Chances are, wither the person with anorexia or their family will have payed National Insurance to warrant being given the treatment anyway, unlike others who kill their liver sitting in a pub all day, never working a day in their life and then expect a transplant to save their life later.

Answer 3

This is an example of an idiot voter who actually absorbs politicians crap. The National Health Service is an institution that is funded by the national insurance payments of all working adults in the UK and by government. It was brought about so that no-one would be deprived of health care due to their financial circumstances. It provides free consultations with a GP, free referral to a free specialist and free operations/therapies. And the prescriptions are subsidised so we do not pay the full cost of medicine that could set you back 100s of quid a month.
There fore anyone who is resident in UK and is suffereing from a recognised illness has the right to be treated for that illness. The only burden on the NHS is red tape, burocrats, quangos and not enough funding. An extra couple of pounds per person would do it.
You utter plonker.

Answer 4

I think what the questioner is asking to do with people who put themselves into situations, which require finite resources which could well be used elsewhere. The only trouble with this sort of question is how far do you take the argument :
Assuming in this case that the anorexic person endangered their life through their own choice i.e. was not ill, depressed etc.,
What about, smokers, alcoholics, obese people, Its just life and that;s the way it always will be

Answer 5

This is about that fat tax, right?

If fat people are to be taxed, then logically, so should anorexic people. Both groups of people have eating disorders....

To 'charge' either group for this, would be both immoral and impractical.

However, anyone who goes to hospital as a result of stupidity really should be charged. Like the Friday night drinkers some one mentioned above... (unfortunately though, this would be really hard to actually pull off)

Answer 6

anorexic people are no more a burden on the NHS than those who over eat and can't help it!... and I have seen both types of people... people being sick in the UK are a burden on the NHS...but not half as much as the state of the hospitals

Answer 7

Anorexia is a mental health issue not a burden.

Smokers are a burden on the NHS.

Answer 8

You come across as a very ignorant man. Do you think people who become stuck up their own aarse are a burden to the NHS?

Answer 9

Absolutely not.

Anorexia is a mental illness - an addiction.

An addiction is an illness, such as those with dependency on alcohol and drugs. These sufferers need any treatment that is available and for the majority its the NHS.

Quite rightly so.

Answer 10

The NHS arent doing enough for people with eating disorders in my opinion

Answer 11

There should be no such thing as a 'burden on the NHS' as their purpose is to help people so it is not possible for people who are going there to be helped to be a burden.


so i believe no going by that logic.