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Listed below are comments made by Ben between Friday, 10th July 2009 and Saturday, 11th July 2009.

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Before and after 6:30pm on 11 Jul 2009 In reply to 'reasonablejon'

What other groups of people would you deny treatment to in order to preserve YOUR tax pounds?

Alcoholics? Druggies? Smokers? Self Harm? Drink drivers? Criminals? Paedophiles?

People who smash themselves to pieces
taking part in dangerous sports or hobbies?

What about people with mental disorders - they surely must all be classified as 'weak individuals' right?

People with differing political views?

Where do you draw the line?
Before and after 6:16pm on 10 Jul 2009 Once you have people with BMI's ranging from 40 to 60+ I don't think the speed of weight loss makes any difference.

I think Paul is the has the ideal example of this, because as you can see he is now incredibly THIN - there is no fat remaining between those folds of skin at all, the skin is simply too damaged to shrink back naturally.

Many problems that are self inflicted get treated by the NHS! For instance if this guy had smashed up his face in a car whilst drink driving there would be no questions asked and he would have reconstruction on the NHS as standard practice.

So why not in this situation?

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The NHS is not there to help people look better, it is there to help people live healthier lives.''

Again I would point to the above example - this isn't simply about looking better, and even if it were the NHS already offers treatments which could fall under this category anyway.

I would argue that fixing this excess skin is like fixing a birth defect or other deformity which would have a large impact on a persons mental health.
Before and after 2:45pm on 10 Jul 2009 I was 34st by aged 17 and I lost 17st with diet and exercise. I'm now a reasonable weight for my height and build (6ft 5)

I was also left with large amounts of excess skin and the NHS offered no help to me despite fighting for over 18 months and I believe they offer no help for other people also in this type of situation.

I'm 23 now and since Jan 08' I have had 7 private operations to remove this skin and enable me to live some kind of normal life. - Now obviously not all of that is totally essential but the NHS should offer some help in removing skin which creates a functional problem during day to day living.

I really feel for this guy and my only advice to him is get saving, you will need 20k+

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