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Future of Obamacare? UK Man Waits Six Hours for Care as Virus Kills Him
Life News ^ | 6/3/13 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 06/03/2013 7:15:48 PM PDT by Nachum

With the implementation of Obamacare in full-swing, Americans are worried about the prospects of government-run health care. To see the damage centralized health care can do to patients, Americans need only look “across the pond” to England.

There, the British government-run health care system — which pays for abortions with taxpayer funds and has been criticized for pushing euthanasia — is literally leaving patients needing lifesaving medical treatment to die.

The London Daily Mail newspaper profiles Stewart Fleming, whose wife Sarah took a picture on her smartphone as he waited six agonizing hours for medical care and attention for a lethal stomach virus that eventually killed him.

The picture Sarah Fleming took of her husband Stewart is one that will haunt her for ever.

(Excerpt) Read more at lifenews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; healthcare; kills; nhs; obamacare; obamacarefuture; uk; virus

1 posted on 06/03/2013 7:15:48 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

2 posted on 06/03/2013 7:18:40 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Nachum

ObamaCARE is DEATHCARE, except of course
for Congress, their families, their Staff, and Moslems.


3 posted on 06/03/2013 7:19:15 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Nachum

the Obama care pathway.

straight from Liverpool
to your hospital!


4 posted on 06/03/2013 7:20:52 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: Travis McGee
....and don't expect any treatment if you have been smoking...like this plumber guy with a broken arm....

..and to add insult to injury ...he was refused disability payments...

Because "you can still clean out toilets with that arm...it will go right around the bend just fine."

5 posted on 06/03/2013 7:24:48 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: spokeshave

What happened to him? Do you have a link to his story? Thanks...


6 posted on 06/03/2013 8:13:57 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Irenic
Just Google: "Liverpool Pathway Controversy" and read all about it and similar cases....also the ethanizing of thousands every year.

Meanwhile:

Plumber with shattered arm left horrifically bent out of ... - Daily Mail www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Plumber-shattered-arm-left-horrifically-bent-sha...‎ Oct 8, 2009 – I have never heard of anyone else having a broken arm for ten months. .... try REALLY hard - he's not eligible to the UK version of disability?

n Crippled man up in arms over NHS | The Sun |News www.thesun.co.uk/sol/.../Crippled-man-up-in-arms-over-NHS.html‎

Oct 7, 2009 – THIS plumber horribly broke his arm TEN months ago and is still waiting for ... Email: talkback@the-sun.co.uk. Horrific ... Torron's fractured arm ...

Plumber left needing operation 10 months after breaking arm ... www.telegraph.co.uk › Health › Health News‎ Oct 7, 2009 – A plumber who broke his arm 10 months ago has criticised the NHS for "unacceptable" delays, claiming they have cancelled four separate ...

7 posted on 06/03/2013 8:37:40 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: spokeshave

And don’t get me started on the UK dental treatment.


8 posted on 06/03/2013 8:39:30 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: Nachum

Somebody needs to go to jail for this.


9 posted on 06/03/2013 8:40:14 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (I miss you Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012). Take care, pretty girl!)
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Sounds like they just brutally played the odds. Hey mister it’s only a virus, you gotta wait.


10 posted on 06/03/2013 8:51:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: Nachum
he waited six agonizing hours for medical care and attention for a lethal stomach virus that eventually killed him.

SIX HOURS....how can this be so....as the UK gobmint passed a law that says every emergency patient HAS to be seen by a doctor within 20 minutes.....

I guess the ambulance was waiting in the parking area for 5.75 hours till a doctor was ready.

11 posted on 06/03/2013 9:07:43 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: spokeshave
Try this one for size.....

Man's appendix ruptures a month after it was 'removed' in hospital ...

www.telegraph.co.uk › News › UK News‎

Aug 25, 2009 – Monday 03 June 2013 | UK News feed ...

Mark Wattson, from Swindon, Wilts, had two appendectomies in a month after doctors failed to remove the appendix at the first attempt.

He claims that he lost his job because his employers did not believe that he needed to have the operation twice.

Mr Wattson, 35, had his first appendectomy on Tuesday, July 7, after being told that his appendix was the cause of abdominal pain he had suffered for several months.

He said that doctors informed him that the procedure had gone well. He was discharged the next day.

Yet a month later, Mr Wattson was taken to hospital after collapsing in Swindon town centre.

He was told by doctors at Great Western Hospital – where his original operation had taken place – that his appendix had burst and that he needed an emergency appendectomy.

12 posted on 06/03/2013 9:13:35 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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By Andrew Gregory

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Dr Mohammed Kassim Al-Byati, who has treated thousands of UK patients, faces a panel to decide if he is fit to practise

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13 posted on 06/03/2013 9:18:49 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: spokeshave

it’s good if you pay for it. i had to use it once. minimal wait as well.

if you’re using socialist care, not so good.


14 posted on 06/03/2013 10:58:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: spokeshave; Irenic

As a Brit, I commented on this story when it broke on FR.
And it wasnt quite as clearcut as claimed. For starters, there is only evidence that two ops were cancelled, not four.

The NHS records which the Trust provided to the British press, showed two ops. The first was cancelled because of the man’s dangerously high blood pressure, the second because he refused to give up smoking and his BP was still far too high to risk an operation.

The benefit refusal was absolutely ridiculous (if true), but that isnt the NHS’s fault.


15 posted on 06/04/2013 4:30:34 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: spokeshave

Yes, because all British people have bad teeth. Do you tell all Indians they smell of curry and all black people they have thick lips and frizzy hair?.

I doubt you have ever even been to the UK. It might astound you to know that millions of us Brits have great teeth.


16 posted on 06/04/2013 4:32:16 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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