2019-11-05

China Will Deny Medical Care to Regime Critics Under Expanded Social Credit

China has been building its social credit system for years and already bans citizens with low scores from boarding planes and trains.

Guardian: China bans 23m from buying travel tickets as part of 'social credit' system
China has blocked millions of “discredited” travellers from buying plane or train tickets as part of the country’s controversial “social credit” system aimed at improving the behaviour of citizens.

According to the National Public Credit Information Centre, Chinese courts banned would-be travellers from buying flights 17.5 million times by the end of 2018. Citizens placed on black lists for social credit offences were prevented from buying train tickets 5.5 million times. The report released last week said: “Once discredited, limited everywhere”.
Now it will expand the ban to medical care.

Just kidding. It's the United Kindgom's National Health Service.

Breitbart: National Health Service to Deny Treatment for ‘Racist or Sexist Language, Gestures, Behaviour’
A National Health Service (NHS) trust has announced that it will withdraw treatment from patients it deems to be racist or sexist.
The North Bristol NHS Trust announced that patients will be subject a “sports-style disciplinary yellow card and then final red card in which treatment would be withdrawn as soon as is safe” on its official website.

The policy would cover not just “Threatening and offensive language” but also “Racist or sexist language, gestures or behaviour” more generally, as well as “malicious allegations” — a rather troubling caveat, given the NHS has in the past been entangled in large-scale malpractice scandals which hospitals and staff have initially denied.

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