re: #248 doppelganglander

There is something seriously wrong with a society that treats its elderly that way.

Indeed there is. It is in fact far worse, because with a state health service comes a bureaucracy, who takes over decisions as to where resources are being spent.
And you can certainly guess where they are not spent - on the care of the elderly.
Now our ‘Health Service’ has been going for 60 years, always udnerfunded, and more and more a political play ball, more and more given to vast bureaucracies ratehr than care for the sick.
You won’t be getting there as fast because you’re starting from a much higher level, and not from the stoical days of post-war Britain.