Posted on 09/06/2015 1:51:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Of the many places from which to observe the Irish health service, the flat of your back is one of the worst. Too often at this moment, when patients are at their most vulnerable, the system lets them down.
It certainly failed Rose O’Halloran. The 101-year-old spent more than 24 hours trapped on a trolley at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, in Tallaght, on the Monday of the June bank holiday. […]
At least O’Halloran eventually got the treatment she needed. In Portlaoise and other towns, babies have been dying or suffering disablement in maternity units in circumstances that vary from questionable to downright wrong. No one would have learned of this but for the valiant efforts of parents to establish the truth.
It has been a bad year for the health service. Bottlenecks, the kind experienced by Rose O’Halloran, have created enormous queues for treatment. Critical reports on maternity services, nursing homes and care homes for the disabled paint a sorry picture of substandard care and mistreatment of patients and residents.
Dispirited staff are voting with their feet, moving to countries where the pay as well as the working conditions are better. …
(Excerpt) Read more at irishtimes.com ...
And they arent swamped by zombie moslems yet either. Just a matter of time before they are a defacto third world hell hole.
They’re under intense pressure to do so right now. From the EU at large, but mainly from Germany.
After being so successful in England and Ireland, socialized medicine now comes to America. Thanks to President O’Bummer and the Pelosi Democrats in Congress.
For creating hell on earth, somebody deserves a special circle in hell after he dies.
The Irish think the Travellers (”Tinkers”) are bad . . . wait until forced desertification begins.
Notably, while droning on and on about the systemic failures of "the system", not one mention was made of the ONLY effective solution to the situation: privatization.
Unfortunately, neither is it a leading solution being discussed here, either.
That’d be like Ireland privatizing its railroads: just ain’t done. They even have it in their constitution that the state can be the only operator, too.
Then they're doomed; doomed, I say!
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