Happy Birthday To Great Britain's Increasingly Scandalous National Health Service

Forbes ^ | July 5, 2013 | Scott W. Atlas, MD

[Bon of Babble]

My daughter too. She was on a school field trip in Northern California and called me complaining of severe cramping. The chaperones thought it was “female cramps” and sent her back to the hotel to lie down. She called a few hours later and I told her to have her teacher take her to the hospital immediately (which she did, Thank God).

A few hours later, I got a call from a surgeon saying my daughter needed immediate emergency surgery for appendicitis; the surgeon told me later the appendix was minutes from bursting which is a life-threatening situation. It took her long enough to recover as it was without a burst appendix.

All turned out well —I was not able to arrive until after the surgery was over as I was 9 hours away. I met with the surgeon, head nurse and anesthesiologist who filled me in on the details.

With obamacare, all bets are off. My daughter might have died waiting for a surgeon...

[originalbuckeye]

I worked in the NHS for 1 1/2 years in the 80’s. My assessment is: it is a great system as long as you don’t get sick.

[aquila48]

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[neverdem]

BTTT!