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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist While U.S. lawmakers argue over funding of "women's reproductive health" services, cutting these services may one day be inevitable in a government-run health care system such as the UK's, where recent budget constraints are forcing them to ration these - and many other services - in an effort to control costs.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A nurse employed by the government-run health care system in the UK was caught on camera turning off a ventilator that was keeping a young quadriplegic patient alive, leaving the man permanently brain damaged.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer   England’s National Health Service (NHS) is under fire again for allowing a 43 year old man with Downs Syndrome to accidentally starve to death because hospital staff failed to realize he wasn’t receiving food or water through the tube in his nose.

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