WTF Barky? She’s either an elitist Exec or a “non” exec... WTF decided Barky?
Run Sarah Run!
System is working. I would be pissed if government officials get ahead of the queue over the citizen
Here's your answer, Jim. Tour wife's death went exactly as planned. By waiting for her to die, they have saved the British subjects her operation cost and aftercare. That's how socialized medicine works, Jim. You aren't allowed to skirt the rules since "fairness" trumps "freedom" where you live and your wife became a victim of the very service she championed as long as the deaths were of other people's wives.
Sorry for your loss, bloke. But those are the cards you were dealt and she lost the NHS lottery. Soon, it will be your turn to experience the same quality of free health care that your wife received. Doesn't that just make your leg tingle, Jim?
What I find amazing is that even elective surgery (when done for medical conditions that pose no real threat to life or well being) can usually be done within 3-5 months if even that here in the US. Of course if this was was 51 instead of 71 she would probably have had the surgery, but as Alan Grayson said...
The answer is "reap what you sow".
She got her operation. It’s just that she had to wait nine months. In the nine months she was so weakened by her condition that the operation killed her. So it was an even worse misapplication of medical resources. Instead of operating on her when it could have done her some good, it was postponed long enough to kill her. And if you read the article in the Mail, she was staying in the hospital for some of the nine months and her family voluntarily brought her home to wait. So the management model is instead of promptly operating on someone and freeing up a bed after a couple of weeks, keep them in hospital for nine months and then give them the operation, killing them and consuming an extra eight and a half months of hospital bed. Sounds crazy. I wonder if she had stayed in the hospital if she would have received surgery sooner. The adminstrators may have felt that people who were occupying beds could be gotten rid of more quickly by operating on them.
ML/NJ
Her devastated husband, Jim, is now demanding answers...
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Why doesn’t he just go out and spit at a tsunami?
When we have socialized medicine our health system will be as effective as our socialist government schools.
It's like this, Jim. From the supply side, you have destroyed an open competitive market and replaced it with a monopoly. From the demand side, you have removed a large diverse group of voluntary consumers and replaced it with a single consumer (government) with undiverse needs.
Here are the results:
Now here's the really sick part. Government fills both roles. It is both supplier and consumer. And the proles are left out of the equation. In essence, there was no incentive for that hospital to hire more doctors to cover their backlog of surgeries. Doing so would cost the monopoly more in cost of goods sold. And there would be no more money coming in from those demanding service.
In essence, socialized medicine is an abysmal failure. And the biggest irony of all is that at a time when Europe and Canada are finally figuring this out, the US is embracing it.
Socialized medicine is not about medicine. It is about control.