Which was true, since they had no more money..................
Everyone who comes into this country from another country with socialized medicine should be required to sign a release of information so statistics can be verified.
“Nevertheless, children often miss out: parents say their youngsters get labelled as too ill to receive specialist care in clinical trials for fear of making the treatment’s success rates look too low, or the families simply live in the wrong postcode to get funds for treatment overseas.
Instead, these parents are told there is nothing more that the NHS can do.”
So, what ZIP CODE do you live in? This isn’t only a money game - its a numbers game. So the statistics are rigged. Anyone SHOCKED?
A big part ofthis debate is that the US was the safety valve for particularly Canadian but in this case UK government health care. But Obama and the Dims want to step in and fix that.
It's the difference between an animal living in the wild that has to depend on itself, or an animal in a zoo that is fed and watered but can be neutered or euthanized at will.
After the US goes single payer, where will people go? Switzerland, maybe?
The Brits voted for this mess, over and over again. If you put the government in charge, this is what you are predictably going to get. Socialized medicine will deliver substandard care to the vast majority, but the small minority that requires extreme care will just be left to die.
Yes, cutting-edge, “expensive” treatments will be rationed if not eliminated. But the other effect that I think the public is missing is that medicine will stagnate. You won’t see advancements in care.
Years ago, I read the history of pediatric cardiac congenital defect repairs. In the 1920s & 1930s, these kids were dying in the OR. Now, the holes in their heart are being repaired on an outpatient basis. In my last ICU job, I worked in a Transplant ICU where our small bowel recipients had a marginal survival rate. 6 years later, those patients are leading relatively normal lives & their rejection/complication rate has been halved! We have to remember that the more we do something, the better we get at doing it. If cancer patients (for example) aren’t receiving care, how does the dumbass pulic ever think there will be a cure? DUH!!!
I can’t stand all the ding dongs I meet who think we have a “right” to “free health care”. WAKE UP, DUMMIES!!! (not you FReepers, of course....I mean all the tools staring at MTV who run out & vote without a clue).