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The United Kingdom's Royal College of Ophthalmologists has found that tens of thousands of elderly people struggle to see because of National Health Service rationing of cataract surgery. The group found that 62 percent of eye surgery units will not perform the surgery unless the patient's vision has deteriorated to a certain point.