Posted on 09/10/2016 3:18:33 PM PDT by NRx
The body that represents hospitals across England has issued a startling warning that the NHS is close to breaking point because of its escalating cash crisis.
Years of underfunding have left the service facing such “impossible” demands that without urgent extra investment in November’s autumn statement it will have to cut staff, bring in charges or introduce “draconian rationing” of treatment – all options that will provoke public disquiet, it says.
n an unprecedentedly bleak assessment of the NHS’s own health, NHS Providers, which speaks for hospital trust chairs and chief executives, tells ministers that widespread breaches of performance targets, chronic understaffing and huge overspends by hospitals mean that it is heading back to the visible decline it last experienced in the 1990s.
“Taken together this means the NHS is increasingly failing to do the job it wants to do and the public needs it to do, through no fault of its own,” Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, writes in the Observer.
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Mark Steyn wisely said that, once a country implements socialized medicine, forevermore the only political discussion in that country is how to fix its broken health care system.
Sick people
Let them collapse.
I remember reading a book set in early 1900’s England about a young and enthusiastic doctor.
It went through all the things wrong with the English medical system.
They are still fighting the same battles today that the doctor in the book railed against.
They haven’t learned a thing and I fear we are headed down the same path.
“The logical areas to examine would be more draconian rationing of access to care, formally relaxing performance targets, shutting services, extending and increasing charges, cutting the priorities the NHS is trying to deliver or, more explicitly, controlling the size of the NHS workforce.”
Notice the ONE thing he didn’t mention was to outsource the inefficient parts of the NHS to private health care. Because these central planners see this as anathema.
Just this week, Obama and Democrats in Congress are proposing a single payer option to be added the the exchanges because so many insurers are exiting them.
This will be OUR future unless there is a revolution of some kind.
Save
The beast is falling, watch for the healing of the dead to God system by the anti Christ..just saying..many will marvel and be deceived
a few million muzzies did not hurt huh?
Thanks O’Bummer. Worst president in history.
oh wow. it was only a matter of time. Our RINO congress is fine with it?
Do you have a link to that story? I’d like to read about it.
Here’s one version:
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/07/12/Obama-Opens-Back-Door-Single-Payer-Nationalized-Health-Plan
despicable. but not surprising.
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