[Timesink]

Yes, they're just SO much more civilized than we are. :::rolling eyes:::

[Timesink]

bump for bump lists

[Restorer]

Professor Monty Mythen, head of anaesthesia at UCL

They're not dead, they're just sleeping!

[fire_eye]

Waiting lists and shortage of doctors blamed for grim mortality figures

WhaaaAAAT??? A shortage of *doctors* in the wonderful socialist paradise, where everyone is taxed into a state of equality and spending 4,347 years in college gets you the same wages as a fish-and-chips "technician"??

You mean people don't want to just selflessly dedicate their lives to saving others without any reward, in the great socialist experiment??

Why, I'm shocked... **SHOCKED**, I tell you... I...

I'm just speechless!! In **BRITAIN**?? This *can't* really be happening. It *must* be all bourgeois reactionary propaganda and lies! There must be some mistake!! Why, the great Truthfinder, Karl Marx himself, is buried in Britain!!!

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[Prodigal Son]

This is a good one to print out and carry around in your pocket for when you get into arguments with lefties and they get all wet in the knickers about the 'free medicine in Europe'.

[MattAMiller]

It's a quagmire! Send more troops!

[Steve Eisenberg]

The New York patients had paid through private insurance to go to hospital and were therefore likely to be of a higher social class and healthier, whereas the NHS patients were from all social classes.

The sample US hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, is ten tiny Manhattan blocks from Harlem. I doubt the patients there are all wealthly.

[luckydevi]

bump

[tophat9000]

But look on the bright side it cut costs in the long run.....

Death is a permanent cure ......

Or in Microsoft marketing speak.... it’s an "undocumented feature"

[glory]

I'm not surprised. Both of my grandparents were victims of British socialized medicine, particularly my grandmother whose cancer was allowed to spread for months while they waited for an appt with a specialist to find out if she had cancer or not. This time was ample enough for it to spread beyond repair.

My grandfather was 81 and I'm sure coming soon to his time anyway, but still, his cancer didn't seem to be taken all that seriously either. This was a healthy older man. In his late 60's he climbed the ladder on my mom's house to repaint the overhangs and then proceeded to paint the whole house. He gardened seriously up until 8 months before his death and vacationed in Spain a mere 2 months before he was diagnosed. He travelled extensively and was very active. He was a Navy man in WWII and healthy as a horse--died with his own teeth in his mouth at 81! I'llgive them some pass in that my grandpa did not go for "help" so he may have let something go that could have been diagnosed earlier, but my overall impression is if you are over a certain age in England, don't expect to be treated as aggresively for life threatening illnesses. It's almost a state sanctioned passive euthenasia(sp).

[river rat]

We should have parallel health systems in America...

A socialized system - which ALL Democrats, Liberals, Marxists, Communists and union members MUST use..

A private system - for the rest of us...

Wait a minute.....we almost have that now!

Semper Fi

[WillowyDame]

*rolling eyes* is RIGHT!!

bashing bush is their nationl past time.

reading their daily papers online is painful; all they do is attack bush and his policies. and they all basically think alike!

blair is getting hit like hell.

the press there is mean and nasty!

[WaterDragon]

It's really bad in Britain if their hospital-related death rate is worse than ours. In America there are far too many, and there's no effective oversight.

[fella]

Cann't you see how a british style medical system in this country would help our social security situation. Of course the Demon-rat leadership would still have private medicine just as they always have had. Sort of like the way they have always had private schools for thier kids.