Now that we have Obamacare, I don't think we are any more prepared. I would admit that we weren't well prepared even before Obamacare, but the government has been running the healthcare system in this country for 100 years anyway. The enactment of Obamacare was just when we finally admitted it. Instead of letting the government run the healthcare system, we should have gotten the government out of the business of restricting the number of doctors and the amount of investment in the healthcare industry.
But I remember the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics where the NHS was touted as Britain’s finest achievement. Patients, doctors, nurses all dancing with hospital beds. Was this not an accurate portrayal?
Ain’t “universal health care” great?
Yes, but it’s free (if you don’t count the heavy taxes to pay for it).
Also, the NHS issued an order that read: “Your hangover is not our emergency.”
Of course, this is not showing up on the American edition of The Guardian which slams American healthcare every day.
Ping.
And the British Left and their media are SOOOO proud of the NHS.
Geez, sounds like an announcement from a third world country.
The truth is with financial pressures on hospitals they cannot afford excess capacity. This could be happening here shortly.
“Many more trusts refused to provide information about pressure levels, with several saying NHS England no longer allowed them to divulge the information...”
So Brits are forced at gunpoint to pay for it but they’re forbidden from learning about silly little things like service levels, patient outcomes, etc.
Seems fair.
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And the country’s leadership will continue to ignore the cause of this chaos until citizens feel like they are living in Venezuela.
I wonder if their tidal wave of Muslim invaders is having an effect.
For those too embarrassed to ask.....
The National Health Service (NHS) is the name used for each of the four public health services in the United Kingdom - the National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland - as well as a term to describe them collectively.
We used to have excess capacity.
It was part of our national defense, like the highways that could turn into airstrips
The government through Healthcare finance bureaucracies shut down excess capacity in the 80s and 90s.
We are more like NHS that our seventies selves.
I think we already have third world medicine. I would never leave a beloved family member in the hospital alone. Ever. If there is no family member, I would hire a nurse, not an aid, a nurse to private care you.