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Great Moments In Single Payer: Britain Cancels 50,000 Surgeries
hotter.com ^ | 1/5/18 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 01/05/2018 4:45:22 PM PST by exbrit

very hospital in the country has been ordered to cancel all non-urgent surgery until at least February in an unprecedented step by NHS officials.

The instructions on Tuesday night – which will see result in around 50,000 operations being axed – followed claims by senior doctors that patients were being treated in “third world” conditions, as hospital chief executives warned of the worst winter crisis for three decades.

Hospitals are reporting growing chaos, with a spike in winter flu leaving frail patients facing 12-hour waits, and some units running out of corridor space.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


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1 posted on 01/05/2018 4:45:22 PM PST by exbrit
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To: exbrit

NHS was good when ya country was mostly white and believed in western cultural values. Didn’t count on the invasion..BLOOP!


2 posted on 01/05/2018 4:48:10 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: exbrit

Let Bernie Sanders get this kind of treatment..after all progressives like good ol Bernie believe that once you reach a certain age, you can just go ahead and drop dead


3 posted on 01/05/2018 4:48:28 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Yea, until it’s their mother or grandmom that is sick.


4 posted on 01/05/2018 4:50:01 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: exbrit

Communism works!! It just hasn’t been tried by the right people yet!!!!


5 posted on 01/05/2018 4:54:03 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Dr. Pritchett; exbrit; snarkytart; Sarah Barracuda

6 posted on 01/05/2018 4:59:15 PM PST by 4Liberty (illegal immigration is a "process" crime too....)
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To: exbrit

bfl


7 posted on 01/05/2018 5:01:02 PM PST by gibsosa
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To: exbrit

Rest assured the UK elites will get their elective surgeries on time.


8 posted on 01/05/2018 5:27:34 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Dr. Pritchett

Communism works. If the little people wouldnt get sick and die, we would have the proof!


9 posted on 01/05/2018 5:30:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: exbrit

British actor Richard Armitage (The Hobbit films) is posting on Twitter that his mom’s surgery has been cancelled.


10 posted on 01/05/2018 5:39:21 PM PST by Ciexyz (I'm conservative & traditionalist, a nationalist and patriot.)
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To: exbrit

Pay heed, leftard morons.

This is socialized medicine.

It has been tried many times. It always fails, not for mistakes in implementation, but because it is fundamentally corrupt.


11 posted on 01/05/2018 5:44:24 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Like the monarchy?


12 posted on 01/05/2018 5:48:14 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: exbrit

“...cancel all non-urgent surgery...”

Guess who makes the call if it is “non-urgent” ... bet it is urgent if it is an elite or royal hangnail .... not so much for the peasant class!


13 posted on 01/05/2018 6:08:56 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: exbrit

Bookmark


14 posted on 01/05/2018 7:16:27 PM PST by aquila48
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Maybe the Brits ought to be bribing officials and surgeons with gifts and vodka.

When socialized healthcare gets really bad over time, the quality of the surgeons declines and cancelling surgery is a Godsend.

Read Solzenictzen’s Cancer Ward, and you’ll probably get an idea where British healthcare is.


15 posted on 01/06/2018 8:50:51 AM PST by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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