I got banned from the last site I was a moderator on.
The OP's 4 questions could have been answerred more easily without the 5th question.
No socialist health care system, that I know of, says anybody over a certain age is cut of from certain procedures. There are systems that take age into account regaurding certain procedures.
IE. someone who is 50 will get a heart stint before someone who is 65. Someone who is 45 will get a hip replacement before an 78 year old. And yes I pulled those numbers out of the air.
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