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England’s strained health care system should ring alarms in the US
The Hill ^ | 09/19/2024 | Marc Siegel

Posted on 09/19/2024 6:58:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The National Health Service in England, founded in 1948 to deliver health care directly to all in need following World War II, is in trouble.

Not only is it broke, but it is also broken, as the new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer just pointed out in response to a recent government study.

The waiting lines for care are prohibitive. A recent study revealed that 8 million people in the United Kingdom are waiting for their care, with 40 percent waiting for more than 18 weeks. An incredible 14,000 people died just last year while waiting for care in England’s emergency rooms.

Despite the well-meaning and compassionate doctors and nurses in the NHS, it is impossible to justify a health system when you have to wait so long for potentially life-saving care. If you aren’t seen, it is impossible to determine severity and urgency.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alarms; englands; healthcare; ring; socializedmedicine; system
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I have a friend who lives in England. She went for a blood test and was number 99 in line...
1 posted on 09/19/2024 6:58:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pretty soon it will be just like Monty Python....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52EEzBNn48g


2 posted on 09/19/2024 6:59:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The regime’s propaganda machine will drown out the ringing of any alarms.


3 posted on 09/19/2024 7:01:55 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pfffft, no one here cares, and when it does happen, they’ll simply blame conservatives.


4 posted on 09/19/2024 7:02:03 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
It really does make me sad, the degree to which a country that was once pretty awesome has deteriorated into such a complete and total shithole.

The worst part is they are the canary in the American coal mine.

5 posted on 09/19/2024 7:02:39 AM PDT by jpl ("You are fake news.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More Liberal failure!


6 posted on 09/19/2024 7:10:08 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: brownsfan

Just like with our unsustainable debt path. An economic storm is brewing that nobody cares about now, but at some point they will and the blame will be laid at the feet of conservatives.


7 posted on 09/19/2024 7:15:29 AM PDT by Starboard
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Should ring alarms in the U.S.?

The Democrats in the U.S. are braindead Marxist zombies. They wouldn't hear alarms about their ideology if Karl himself were ringing the bell.

8 posted on 09/19/2024 7:15:51 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking objectively is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just cling to their biases.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have been told by actors on tv that the UK’s healthcare system is the best in the world, no one pays for anything and the doctors and nurses are all loving and compassionate /s


9 posted on 09/19/2024 7:21:43 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: The Louiswu

Remember that macabre celebration of the NHS during the London Olympics Opening Ceremonies?


10 posted on 09/19/2024 7:23:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The problem is all the middlemen, grifters, and parasites all reaching out for a piece of the pie.

Go to a hospital and ask how much a procedure is. No one will give you a straight answer. They keep repeating "who is your insurance, who is your insurance". No, I want a true answer devoid of middlemen and scoundrels.

They can't give you the answer.

11 posted on 09/19/2024 7:24:35 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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In Britain *everybody* has the right to wait 9 months for a brain scan...to wait a year to see a cancer specialist...and to wait 18 months for a hip replacement. And they don’t have to pay a penny for the privilege.


12 posted on 09/19/2024 7:29:34 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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We have 30 million people in this country that shouldn’t be here.


13 posted on 09/19/2024 7:30:09 AM PDT by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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More like “81 Million”.


14 posted on 09/19/2024 7:31:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Government does everything badly and the bigger it is, the worse it gets


15 posted on 09/19/2024 7:35:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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You can’t export all of those people. The housing shortage would collapse, RE prices would collapse and whole swaths of publicly funded private interests would be whiped out in a heartbeat. You might even be able to enjoy going to the beach again, although your experience may vary.


16 posted on 09/19/2024 7:37:37 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Government does everything badly and the bigger it is, the worse it gets


You mean “Diverse it gets!”


17 posted on 09/19/2024 7:40:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What do the politicians care? They have private physicians that are available to them 24/7. I have a wealthy relative that paid cash for all of her cancer treatments - and got right in.

Ask the people in Springfield, Ohio, how they feel about the medical system now...

“Mayor Rob Rue said...that a mass influx of migrants in recent years has overwhelmed the city’s healthcare and education systems.”


18 posted on 09/19/2024 7:40:38 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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This will come to the US, all over, if Harris is elected, it is one of her key platforms.

It is already happening in California where illegals are allowed to not only access our ERs and health care systems, they don’t have to pay a thing for it. Newsom has made sure that illegals have health care coverage.

Had to take my daughter to urgent care to get a clearance for school - was totally packed with what looked like illegals, so many they were sitting on the steps outside. Went back about six months later and it had closed down.


19 posted on 09/19/2024 7:45:06 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sure, the UK’s National Health Service is in trouble. But that will have no effect on liberals who want the exact same thing here.

And that’s because a core liberal belief is, “This time it will be different.”

But of course it never is.


20 posted on 09/19/2024 7:46:56 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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