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Universal and Equal Rights to Health in the UK

 

            According to the statistics supplemented by the National Health Service (NHS), the treatment of coronary heart disease, diabetes and obesity, which are due to the result of personal lifestyle choices (related to diet and absence of physical exercise) costs the tax payers around millions of pounds every year (Dean, 1999). The report of Telegraph indicated that the government of United Kingdom is spending an excess of 800 million pounds on drugs alone to diagnose various lifestyle related complications. As per the figures supplemented by the official government, the use of prescription drugs to diagnose "obesity, diabetes, alcoholism, smoking and cardiovascular complications" has enhanced substantially (Harris, 2003). The surge in lifestyle associated conditions is cause an immense challenge to the National Health Service. Though, each and every citizen of the United Kingdom is actually entitled to receive high quality of care and support at times of disease, the provision of this right is appearing to be extremely expensive for the tax payers and National Health Services of the United Kingdom. The present essay examines the underlying ability of National Health Service to guarantee this issue in regard to its expenditure on the treatment of various lifestyle related diseases, which have become an immense burden for the service to tackle. In order to frame a solution, the essay takes into account three main diseases-coronary heart disease, diabetes and obesity with a viewpoint of assessing the financial costs of NHS and UK tax payers. The essay offers a comprehensive overview of illustrations against withdrawal of right to free National Health Service Treatment for people who made self choices that have damaged their health quality and well-being (Garfield, 1999). .
             Coronary Heart Disease is the leading cause of death amongst the population of the United Kingdom. The reports published by the National Health Service indicates that one in every five men suffer with the disease and with one death in every seven women.


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