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The collapse of Britain's National Health Service, the crown jewel of socialized healthcare
Washington Examiner ^ | March 15, 2023 | Katherine Doyle

Posted on 03/15/2023 12:16:35 PM PDT by Robwin

Great Britain's National Health Service, which is meant to provide “free” universal healthcare , is collapsing under the strain of long wait times, hidden data, and excess deaths.

Long held up as the crown jewel of “ socialized healthcare,” the world’s largest government-run system is unraveling.

The crisis has led to a surge in excess deaths that has outlasted the coronavirus pandemic, with ambulance and emergency room delays linked to hundreds of deaths each week, leaked internal data suggest . Hospitals already near capacity last fall could not keep pace as the winter flu season took hold.

After waiting hours for medical attention, patients are evaluated in ambulances, waiting rooms, or hallways, while figures show tens of thousands of people spending 12 hours or more on hospital gurneys after being admitted to the emergency department.

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


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: nhs
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To: Robwin

They are living up to their motto: NHS, where people go to die ...eventually.


21 posted on 03/15/2023 2:12:08 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: Robwin

I once worked for a Global Logistics Company based in London - none of the Senior Execs used the British System. Most had Doctors at UPenn and would bring their families here for medical care.


22 posted on 03/15/2023 2:24:47 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: EC Washington

Circa 1978 while living in the UK the health care system was good but not perfect. My son was born there, and the care was excellent. Acute medical as in birth or injury was excellent. Normal care for chronic conditions were not. You just stood in line. For such I just paid for out of NIH health services as I could do such. Most could not.


23 posted on 03/15/2023 3:00:16 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: Robwin

None of this applies to the politicians in charge. If they faceplant of a fine sunny day they’ll be in hospital/theatre in minutes.


24 posted on 03/15/2023 3:03:58 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

At the local orthopedic clinic, where people are evaluated for joint replacements, I was told there are some days where one third of the patients are cash-paying Canadians. And we are nowhere near the Canadian border ...


25 posted on 03/15/2023 4:25:09 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: PGR88

Brits I know want to blow it up.


26 posted on 03/15/2023 5:47:45 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: dadfly

Look up Liverpool Care Pathway
The British gov’t has been murdering at least 120,000 people a year by denying food and water and medical care.

This is going on here in the USA. Read about the scamdemic.

Hospitals bribed to put patients on pathway to death: Cash incentive for NHS trusts that meet targets on Liverpool Care Pathway
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223286/Hospitals-bribed-patients-pathway-death-Cash-incentive-NHS-trusts-meet-targets-Liverpool-Care-Pathway.html


27 posted on 03/15/2023 6:02:45 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: AZJeep

We have 10 hour ER waits in Syracuse. I have a doctors appointment in May.


28 posted on 03/16/2023 1:47:44 AM PDT by brianr10
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To: Robwin

article is a mishmash of topics and paragraphs randomly jammed together, with little tidbits like “weight” used for “wait” ... article was clearly vomited out by a particularly bad AI program, with zero human editing ...


29 posted on 03/16/2023 5:53:00 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: joshua c

Doc Martin et al are the idealized population of those merely existing in the diversified cities. Doc Martin is propaganda depicting a delusional ideal.

Doc Martin had no colored CEO’s or royalty or queers or other perverts. Doc Martin presents the ideal England


30 posted on 03/16/2023 6:03:08 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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