Jeepers. Why are young ladies getting breast cancer?
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.