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Britain Gives America a Preview of Obamacare
RCP ^ | 08/26/2013 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 08/26/2013 5:31:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 08/26/2013 5:42:40 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Each visit to the United Kingdom brings new horror stories about the National Health Service.

Last month, Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, issued a forensic report, commissioned by the government, which found that 14 underperforming hospitals in England had substandard care, contributing to the needless deaths of nearly 13,000 people since 2005.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; britain; healthcare; nhs; obamacare

1 posted on 08/26/2013 5:31:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Cal Thomas is a regular columnist in our local paper. They will not print this column, guaranteed.


2 posted on 08/26/2013 5:48:23 PM PDT by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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RE: Cal Thomas is a regular columnist in our local paper

What is the name of this paper?


3 posted on 08/26/2013 6:07:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Preview, Hardly! Great Britton is a SMALL island nation of sixty million not a continental nation of 300+ million. What is about to happen in the U.S. is an unmitigated disaster of biblical proportions!


4 posted on 08/26/2013 6:24:51 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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In early stage breast cancer, an American woman has a 97 per cent chance of being alive five years after diagnosis. In Britain, this figure is only 78 per cent.

Routine breast screening in the U.S. starts at 40 rather than 50, as in Britain, and women are thoroughly checked every one to two years, rather than every three years under the the UK's NHS.

Link to article

5 posted on 08/26/2013 6:30:29 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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Preview, Hardly! Great Britton is a SMALL island nation of sixty million not a continental nation of 300+ million. What is about to happen in the U.S. is an unmitigated disaster of biblical proportions!

You beat me to it, Jim from C-Town. We'll show the English!

6 posted on 08/26/2013 6:44:59 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Ha...just Google "Liverpool Pathway Controversy"

Read and weep for the thousands euthanized every year by the UK "National Health"

7 posted on 08/26/2013 10:01:41 PM PDT by spokeshave (While Zero plays silly card games like Spades - Putin plays for keeps.)
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Aren’t the Brits a “highly” taxed society. My wife used to be English and was very happy to leave that country 46 years ago.


8 posted on 08/27/2013 4:38:46 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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