Don't sigh. I am not trying to drag you into a "political" discussion. Just giving you something to think about. It isn't a hypothetical, or a speculation, as you heard from adywan it is something that is happening in the UK; a very modern and progressive part of the world under the same sort of health care system some of us dream of having here in the states. There are other things like this happening under other socialized health care systems, but some of us are still in the habit of filtering those realities out and letting our eyes glaze over with visions of utopia.