What Hippocratic Oath?

A lot of British doctors apparently think that treating the old and the sick is no way to run a health-care system:

Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.

Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone.

To repeat: there is no health care system in this universe that gives everyone all the health care they “need.” There is only scarcity, and different criteria for coping with it.