and that mutt in the white hut along with it's minions won't rest till we are blessed with the same system...
Posted on 07/13/2013 5:36:45 PM PDT by lowbridge
Proponents of President Obama’s “Affordable Care Act” often suggest skeptics look across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom as an example of what can be made better with the American health care system.
But doctors in the United Kingdom have about had it, it seems, calling their own system “worse than Communist China.”
A recent report in the U.K. Telegraph chronicles the conclusions of the British Medical Association’s annual conference, where doctors loudly lamented the undue power of abusive managers and bureaucrats, who seem to have as much or more power in hospitals than the actual doctors.
“The result is the perfect toxic professional working environment for this explosive mixture to generate disasters such as Mid Staffordshire which did so much harm to patients,” said Dr. Peter Holden, a member of the BMA’s GP negotiating committee.
“Not even in Communist China did they have managers overruling doctors in the operation of hospitals and health services,” he added.
The Mid Staffordshire “disaster” is a reference to the revelation that up to 1,200 people died unnecessarily at an NHS-run hospital between 2005 and 2009, some suffering from starvation or dehydration and left in complete squalor (this is the case where people were drinking the water out of flowerpots they were so desperate).
Dr Keighley, who is set to retire after roughly four decades in the profession, said he has seen an alarming turn in that “we now see health boards talking about ‘their’ patients – almost implying that the doctors it employs or contracts with are mere technicians in the pursuit of their corporate aim.”
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Sounds like an Obama dream for all the little people. He will sit on his version of Mount Olympus and stare down on all the vassals.
Obamacare is all about power for the rats. They want control. They want unionized labor controlling 1/6th of the U.S. economy. They want to bail out Cadillac union healthcare plans on the backs of taxpayers. They want to reduce the wealth and prestige of Doctors - (mostly GOP supporters). They want to kill the free market. They want to redistribute wealth and consider healthcare a right. They want everyone dependent on government.
They don’t want our Constitution. They want Cloward-Pivens.
ObaMugabe thinks Britain’s NHS is the model system!
Yeah it was just genius to take the best medical system in the world and turn it over to self serving politicians
You are correct sir.
You mean that treacly dance number dedicated to the NHS in the opening ceremony of the London Olympics wasn’t realistic? Imagine that....
OK here are a few facts about the NHS which my mother uses and is still over in England.
Years ago her and her husband wanted to get checked for cancer, it took 11 months and during that timer her husband died on the sofa of cancer.
About 5 years later , maybe 4 she needed surgery on her knee,
The Doc told her that she had been refused and he had to do an appeal to London, it took more months and he won the appeal.
It took months to get that answer and finally she was told she needed to be ready on a certain date but call the night before.
I asked why should you call and she told me”because to see if they have a spare bed?
To her this is normal due to her always living there.
She was refused 3 times and finally got her surgery.
She never got her full PT after the surgery either.
Last week I called her and she told me that she had been sick, can’t eat and pains in her stomach.
Weeks later she was told she can get a x ray no cat scan no MRI.
She got the xray last week but told me it takes 7 to 10 days for the results.
She now tells me that the Doc called her but it will take another two weeks before she can see a Doc.
She is 82 and this is how old people are treated while those in prison and illegals and immigrants get their medical help right away.
This is coming to America because dopey stupid people voted for this and still think it’s a free health care.
I’m seeing more old beat up clunker cars spewing smog and driven by aging gray-haired hippies with the bumper sticker “I Love Obamacare.”
Makes me sick seeing the dregs of society bragging about getting their substandard “free” stuff.
Yeah, well... it’s just getting worse.
Norway: I have diabetes, which has grown into a life threat thanks to my state-ordained medic. Now the same medic is refusing to grant disability, but is trying to run some government hatchet man to render a verdict of “dangerous rightwinger”. Three years ago, when I was almost losing a leg to neuropathy, he refused wound treatment at home but was overriden by specialists at the nearest hospital. When I broke a shoulder a year and a half ago, and had a titanium bar put in, he had learned about wound treatment and initiated that. But after the first contact with new nursing staff (Pakis), treatment was terminated.
The war on the west is raging both in the US and Europe, and it’s being waged by “our own”.
and that mutt in the white hut along with it's minions won't rest till we are blessed with the same system...
This is the real problem with government run healthcare. Because it is owned by the public, it becomes a valid political debating point. Any criticism of the system is always painted by the socialists and unions as an attack on the doctors and (especially) the nurses. Yet the main problem is the armies of bureaucrats that always multiply around government organisations and suck up all the vast resources thrown at the NHS The doctors and nurses are great. The main problem they have is that they are overworked, and if we didnt have as many bureaucrats we could afford more of them and that problem would go away.
It still has to be paid for, by someone, somehow. The American public needs to be made aware of that, because I dont think they fully understand that.
See? The problem with government is that it isn't Socialist ENOUGH!
England should follow Chiner's lead!
Thanks manc. Is always nice to see facts. Prayers for your Mother that the care she is suffering under will improve and more prayers for your Mother’s health to improve.
thanks
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