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Fined For Being Too Fast [UK punishes hospital because it didn't make patients wait]
sky.com ^ | August 02, 2006

Posted on 12/30/2006 2:02:44 PM PST by grundle

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To: grundle
I just read on the Internet the average wait for hip replacement surgery in England is 2 years.

That's certainly what we need in the U.S.

41 posted on 12/30/2006 6:10:35 PM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: grundle

Typical Brits. They can't get anything right. We beat them in two wars; had to save their asses in two other wars; they talk funny, and they like soccer. What do you expect?


42 posted on 12/30/2006 6:11:16 PM PST by SALChamps03
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To: grundle

Sounds like they need to create more beauracracy to bring the wait time back up to "the agreed minimum 122 days". That should bring the cost and quality of health care at that facility back to the socialiast/communist norm. I heard that Cuba, the premier healthcare center of the world, brought in more Spanish doctors and medicine today for Castro, 12/30/2006. Oh yeah, "Clinton 2008!" /s


43 posted on 12/30/2006 6:21:23 PM PST by theymakemesick (Under sharia law, bacon will be illegal in Americistan, reason enough to keep islam out of America)
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To: grundle

I know the socialized medicine of Europe really sucks, but this is so far out there that I'm wondering if it's satire?

MM


44 posted on 12/30/2006 8:03:57 PM PST by MississippiMan (Behold now behemoth...he moves his tail like a cedar. Job 40:17)
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To: Canard

Please don't get me wrong, I really love the UK. It's where all my ancestry came from. But from the news articles I read, I have to wonder if Lenin's Tomb has found a new custodian. Perhaps it's media bias, or perhaps the English are undergoing temporary insanity. It's not just one thing; we have coddling of the beheaders, pointy knife amnesty, universal healthcare (that must wait exactly 122 days), and then there's Prince Charles and Red Ken. Also signs in 37 languages, everything except English. One must wonder.


45 posted on 12/30/2006 8:30:19 PM PST by Sender ("How do you know what the fish think? You're not a fish." -Hui Zi)
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To: grundle
How fast do the Civil Servants (Masters) get seen and treated?
46 posted on 12/30/2006 10:55:06 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: backhoe

This certainly qualifies for the Hillary Archives Opposition Research Thread, don't you think?


47 posted on 12/31/2006 8:26:26 AM PST by Pagey (The Clintons ARE the true definition of the word WRETCHED!)
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To: Pagey
This certainly qualifies for the Hillary Archives Opposition Research Thread, don't you think?

Yes, thanks. Happy New Year.

48 posted on 12/31/2006 1:27:15 PM PST by backhoe (Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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To: LaineyDee
"You won't be able to pay out-of-pocket for any care... if medicine goes socialized nationally. Some of the excerpts of the Hillarycare papers implied you would be restricted to a "district" and could be fined/imprisoned for going outside said "district" for healthcare without prior government approval."

It doesn't get much scarier than that ... I sure am thrilled to live in a country where my fellow citizens taught pub pols a lesson because they weren't pure enough and instead wound up making this kind of thing more and more likely.

One more time - you take the best you can get and keep hammering on them instead of taking the worst available who will totally ignore your hammering.

49 posted on 12/31/2006 1:34:14 PM PST by Let's Roll ("...given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor - you will have war"- W.Churchill)
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To: LaineyDee

#49 not meant for you, Lainey.


50 posted on 12/31/2006 1:35:31 PM PST by Let's Roll ("...given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor - you will have war"- W.Churchill)
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To: Let's Roll

No prob... :)


51 posted on 12/31/2006 3:21:44 PM PST by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: Eva

The hip op sounds strange in Britain if someone has an accident and breaks a hip normally they get the op within 3 days because otherwise infection can set in or so I understood.


52 posted on 12/31/2006 3:51:02 PM PST by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - Big Time))
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To: grundle

IF there is some stupid idea, they will come up with it in England first.


53 posted on 12/31/2006 3:54:45 PM PST by omega4179 (Just say no to riNOs)
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To: grundle
The Government wants patients to wait no longer than six months before seeing a consultant.

My god. This sounds like something out of a bad apocalyptic sci-fi novel.

54 posted on 01/01/2007 1:14:20 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: snugs

I think that it sounds strange, too, but it really happened. She fell off the horse in September and wasn't operated on until the first week in December. They just gave her a walker and lots of pain pills.


55 posted on 01/01/2007 4:42:08 PM PST by Eva
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