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Problem solved, right? Hardly. First, the government denied the request to cover the cost of Oliver having surgery in Boston. Then, they denied the request to have the Boston surgeons perform the surgery in the U.K.
So Lydia and Tim took the bull by the horns and began raising donations through an online site to cover the quarter-million-dollar cost. By the time they had raised two-thirds of the money, the NHS decided that they needed to fund the surgery to avoid a public relations nightmare – especially in the aftermath of the death of Charlie Gard, the British boy for whom the NHS had denied free offers of help from international sources, including the Vatican.
The surgery was a complete success. Baby Oliver is reportedly doing exceptionally well.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Socialism has never ever worked any where in the world, throughout the entire history of the world. Glad God and this boy’s parents prevailed.
I’m an American, American-trained, and I’ve worked in the NHS.
To talk about a nationalized health system in this country modelled on the NHS is apples and oranges.
The Brits place a very high value on universal access free of cost at the point of access. It’s VERY important to them. To achieve it, the hospitals and surgeries (private offices) were seized by the Crown in 1948 after an election in which the Commons majority promised to do exactly that.
They also realized that, to have this, there had to be a budget and that with unlimited demand and finite resources, some people would not be treated or would not receive the latest technology, drugs, or surgery.
The people in this country do not place a high value on these things. So, we have made other choices, one of which was to borrow $20 trillion dollars and to print many more so that everyone could have everything.