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This sounds unlikely to me. I'm asking specifically about the story a few paragraphs down about untreated TB in the UK.

Are antibiotics expensive? TB is contagious, and letting it go untreated is a public health hazard. Anyone know anything about limits on tuberculosis treatment in the UK? Antibiotic resistant TB?

http://oceanaris.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/the-banality-of-evil-the-health-care-debate-takes-a-dangerous-turn/
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 August 20, 2009 05:01 PM
According to the UK Department of Health, "medication for the treatment of tuberculosis to be provided free of charge in TB clinics or via a patient group direction" and this has been the case since late 2007.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Communicablediseases/Tuberculosis/index.htm
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August 20, 2009 05:19 PM
If I am not mistaken TB is more of a 3rd world disease. There are plenty of treatments for it now days and as long as you have insurance (unfortunate) it shouldn’t be that difficult to afford the pills.

In no way am I saying that the UK is a 3rd world country it may just mean a lot of immigrants, or people going to 3rd world countries for whatever reason.
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