Posted on 06/07/2022 12:33:22 PM PDT by grundle
When Siobhan Harrison noticed a bump on her upper chest in December 2020, she thought it was a pimple and tried to pop it. But the area became bruised, and then grew.
"I kept an eye on it for a while and noticed it getting bigger, which I thought was because I'd aggravated it," Harrison, a 24-year-old barista in South Wales, told the UK wire service PA Life. "But it started to worry me, so I booked a doctor's appointment."
Clinicians in the UK's public health system, NHS, referred her for further testing, but the wait list was nine months long. So Harrison paid £200, or about $250, for an ultrasound at a private hospital. The results indicated the lump could be cancer, so Harrison was bumped up the NHS waitlist for a biopsy, which she underwent in June 2021.
"When I got the results, I half expected it to be a cyst or something benign," she told PA Life. "Even though I was concerned about it, I still didn't expect it to be anything too bad."
Instead, it was stage-two triple negative breast cancer. Stage-two means the cancer has grown into nearby tissue, but not yet to other organs. Triple-negative is form of breast cancer that spreads faster, has fewer treatment options, and tends to have poorer outcomes than other types, according to the American Cancer Society. It's most common in women who are under 40, Black, or have a BRCA1 mutation.
"I was so upset," Harrison said about her diagnosis. "It was fast growing, and the lump was now over 2cm in size. Doctors scheduled me in for surgery the following week, it all happened very fast."
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Jeepers. Why are young ladies getting breast cancer?
“ Jeepers. Why are young ladies getting breast cancer?”
Mandated Vaccines most likely
“NHS, referred her for further testing, but the wait list was nine months long. So Harrison paid £200, or about $250, for an ultrasound at a private hospital”
My neighbor die because the local NHS clinic was waiting on a replacement dialysis machine. The next nearest clinic was full.
My other neighbor 62 years old took out a loan on her town house to fly to South Africa to get a hip replacement, she had been on the waiting list for 3 years. She got tired of being in pain.
Those are the stories Obama care supporters do not hear about England healthcare system. The NHS is not free, the program is funded by general taxes and payroll tax. Nothing is free in life.
If you are old or single with no children, you are placed at the bottom of the waiting list.
There are some genetics that make one more likely to have certain types of cancer. Went through the process a few years ago with my wife who had a few cancer-related deaths in her family. Luckily it ended up just being a fatty tissue deposit. Needless to say the family doctor was pretty much worthless, and we went to Fox Chase in Philadelphia for an opinion. The staff there were absolutely first-rate. When in doubt best to get checked out.
This is the Left’s goal for America.
There is no way to “reform” the bloated, state-directed medicare-medicated, highly-regulated 3rd payer system in the USA. It has too many adherents, too many dependents, too much money flowing around it.
What’s needed is a total end-run around it. Allow it to exist, but allow a totally free-market, cash-only, no-third-party, no-government system to develop around it. Something akin to medical “free trade zones” allowed in every city/state.
My sister in law works for Henry Ford in Detroit.
She is a medical coder for them and does codes for multiple Canadians each week.
Even has some from the UK come across her system once in a while.
So Harrison paid £200, or about $250, for an ultrasound at a private hospital....
so Harrison was bumped up the NHS waitlist for a biopsy, which she underwent in June 2021.
Six full months for a biopsy?!
In any civilized country, where the government cared about their subjects, private medicine would not be outlawed.
One of the "features" of Obamacare was that most private medical care would restricted, so that government healthcare would be "fair" to all.
Fair to all except those on the federal medical health insurance system.
“Why are young ladies getting breast cancer?”
Typically it’s estrogen driven and it is often a side-effect of birth control pills.
In this case the cancer was triple negative meaning that none of the usual receptors were involved. The actual cause will likely never be determined.
She get the jab?
NHS ... where people go to die.
For me (an ordinary middle class guy) I was in the recovery room of a world famous hospital 12 business days after making the call to set up an appointment for an initial consultation.
OTOH,in Canada the median waiting times varied from province to province. In Manitoba the median wait time from referral to surgery was 30 weeks while something like a third of patients waited 40 weeks.
And in British Columbia,one of their most heavily populated provinces,there were patients who waited almost a year for a certain kind of cardiac procedure (can't recall what kind).
IIRC Canada's health system is very similar,but not identical,to Britain's.
I was doing research awhile ago too. I recall reading the official proceedings in England where they said that the wait times to get just a hearing TEST was something like 20 MONTHS in the rural areas of England. “This is unacceptable for our rural communities!! When in London, one can get a hearing exam with a wait of only 10 weeks!” (Or something like that - I know it was about a 2 year wait in rural areas!)
I was reading where they have since solved the problem (for hearing tests at least) by allowing the private firms to do the work.
I know some Canadians that live here, and they go on and on about how great their system is.
“So why don’t you live there?”
“There are no jobs that pay a decent living.” (Two people)
One of those people that brags on their system was saying that their dad was visiting.
“Oh - anything special?” (Thinking birthday, etc.)
“He’s having an operation. He would have had to wait another year up there, and the doctors are better down here.”
I noticed, that since Obamacare, the lines in the USA got quite longer too.
Not as long as NHS, but heading that way!
In the UK, private medicine is not outlawed. You just have to pay for it after paying for the NHS.
Death rates for breast cancer in the UK are almost twice as high as in the US. Routine mammograms under the NHS are only done every two years and there are similar months long waits to see specialists and get cancer treatments.
Very true for the UK.
I was intending to reference one of the Obamacare proposals in the US from back in ~2010. It would have "permitted" private medicine only in certain cases, with union and federal employees conspicuously exempted.
I'll need to blame it on a small phone, old, fat fingers and a lack of patience at the time.
People will say it’s anything but that.
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