Posted on 01/15/2017 1:56:50 PM PST by rey
One of the most curious political phenomena of the western world is the indestructible affection in which the British hold their National Health Service. No argument, no criticism, no evidence can diminish, let alone destroy, it. The only permissible criticism of it is that the government does not spend enough on it, a ‘meanness’ (with other people’s money) to which all the service’s shortcomings are attributable. In effect, the NHS is the national religion.
Yet again, however, the NHS is in ‘crisis.’ The British Red Cross has called the present situation an incipient humanitarian crisis, as if the country were now more or less in the same category as Haiti after a hurricane, earthquake or other natural disaster. The Red Cross says that it had been asked to help out at twenty hospitals.
NHS crises, which are an inability to meet demand without prolonged and sometimes fatal waiting times (three patients died last week alone while waiting in the corridors of my local hospital), occur regularly, indeed monotonously so. I cannot remember a time without them. Conditions during these crises, including the present one, are regularly reported to be the worst within living memory, which suggests as much a failure of memory as any change in the system itself. For example, I remember a friend’s father being taken to hospital with renal colic and waiting for several hours for attention: and that was forty-five years ago. No one was surprised by it then, as no one would be surprised by it now.
The current NHS has a budget 50 per cent greater than it had 10 years ago. It employs 25 per cent more doctors than it did then.
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Did they ever get any dentists?
And the illegals get first dibs. Suicidal leftist misfits.
british sheep, happily penned in an NHS house of wolves.
and they were here in the silicon valley (british educated asian indians no doubt) screaming at us in their haughty oxford/cambridge accents when we were protesting obamacare in 2009.
And yet, we were told what a great system Britain had when they unloaded Obamacare on us.
Isn’t that a shame. Ahh, those wonderful Leftists.
Jesus wept.
That’s where we were headed.
I do hope Trump has something up his sleeve to cure this nation’s medical mess.
We should know shortly.
Probably but no amount of dentists would be able to keep up with the British need for dental work.
Probably but no amount of dentists would be able to keep up with the British need for dental work.
Those in charge of government, and those hooked in w/them, get treatment no problem.
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