Hospitals with a year-long waiting list (England)

Telegraph ^ | 09/06/2007 | Nic Fleming

[CholeraJoe]

That’s British notation for June 9th, 2007. They put the day first, then the month.

[Kimmers]

Thank you, now that makes sense. I will remember that for the future.....

[AngelesCrestHighway]

HillaryCare.....No thanks!

[rbosque]

Oh...
My mistake. The hospital stay was a bit spartan though.

[maine-iac7]

Mr Burnham said: "These are very exciting set of figures of which the NHS should be very proud.

Oh yes...cutting the waiting time down to 4 1/2 months. That's really something to crow about!

[Peter Libra]

There may be a rational explanation for the downside of any socialistic health care scheme. I lived under the National Health Scheme in England. This was in the first half of the 1950's. Now what actually happened was that anybody and everybody got pumped up as to "my rights". Persons swamped the doctors offices. What is simply not recognized by any advocate of such a universal scheme is this, it brings into the established structure a vast demand.

Now back to Canada. As a steel worker I contributed to a Group Health Centre. 3000 of us checked off $130. Physicians and a pharmacy were employed in the new building. It was so successful, the government took over. (Damn).

Again and I repeat, if any system is opened to those who do not have to pay, it puts an impossible burden on that system.

A Provincial government was aware of this. They enacted legislation to charge an paltry initial fee of ten dollars per visit. The do-gooders howled to high heaven, I believe the government backed off. It is a proven fact that many poor people spend over a third of their disposable income on either lottery tickets, alcohol, tobacco and fast food.

From Newfoundland a study. Of the users of a medical care system, 6% of the population use 24% of the services. One woman used 72 visits to 13 doctors. Bottom line is that if a free service is offered, people will use it- whether or not they need it.

[VRWCmember]

Man I wish we had access to that kind of universal health care here in the US.

[nonsporting]

They pledged that by this new measure no one would wait longer than 18 weeks by the end of 2008.

Anyone care to wager on the accuracy of the predictive powers of socialist government? ... I didn't think so.

18 weeks...thats 4 1/2 months. Cancer tumors can grow and spread very quickly. In G.B. cancer of any kind is a death sentence it would seem (unless you're connected/royalty).

[ThatchersKiddie]

18 weeks...thats 4 1/2 months. Cancer tumors can grow and spread very quickly.

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Um - that’s 18 weeks for a non-emergency procedure. Cancer is hardly non-emergency.