| National Heath Care Economics; No Pap Smear till 25 in UK | |
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| Joan Foster | Jul 5 2009, 04:34 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1161780/Victory-Jade-Govt-U-turn-cervical-cancer-screening-25s.html The death of reality star Jade Goody sparked a debate in the UK...where Natl Health insurance decided no woman "needed to be tested till 25. Jade died at 27 while allowing the nation to watch. This is our future: decisons made for dollars not your best health care interests. |
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| Joan Foster | Jul 5 2009, 06:02 PM Post #2 |
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At The Corner, they've been taking note of horror stories from Britain's National Health Service. I love this by Mark Steyn: When we quote stories like these at NRO, we get a lot of e-mail saying these are just "anecdotes". And yes, if you look on yourself as being part of a government health system of millions of people, getting a bedsore and dying in hideous pain is no big deal in the scheme of things. But I look on myself as being part of the Mark Steyn health system. So if I get a bedsore and die, as far as I'm concerned, that's a 100% systemic failure. The difference between government health care and a private system is that, under the latter, you're free to say, "This dump's filthy. I'm going to the state-of-the-art joint five miles up the road." You may have to get out your checkbook, but ultimately the decisions are yours. In a government system, the decisions are the bureaucrats', and that's that. My father is currently ill, and the health "system" is doing its best to ensure it's fatal. When an ambulance has to be called, they take him to a different hospital according to the determinations of the bed-availability bureaucrats and which facility hasn't had to be quarantined for an infection outbreak. At the first hospital, he picked up C Difficile. At the second, MRSA. At the third, like the lady above, he got septicaemia. He's lying there now, enjoying the socialized healthcare jackpot - C Diff, MRSA, septicaemia. None of these ailments are what he went in to be treated for. They were given to him by the medical system. http://www.powerlineblog.com/ Edited by Joan Foster, Jul 5 2009, 06:03 PM.
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| TarHeelBorn | Jul 5 2009, 08:43 PM Post #3 |
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I love Mark Steyn! So sorry to hear of his father's nightmare experience. Wish he could bring him to the US for treatment.......but with some of the ailments he has now, I'm not sure even the medical system in the US could save him. These are nasty killers....... Was with an acquaintance last night who is in her late 70's. Has kidney disease, only 65 to 70% working on their own......I asked if she was going to try and get a kidney transplant, and she said since she was over 70, Medicare wouldn't look at it....said if any relatives could match, she could have the surgery. So she knows she will eventually go on dialysis...... |
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| Concerned | Jul 5 2009, 09:25 PM Post #4 |
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Private insurance is frustrating but national healthcare will even make the nightmare worse. They treat the patient like an ignorant and irresponsible child. Our private insurance company refused to refill my husband's blood pressure prescription 2 weeks early even though he explained that we were leaving the country for 15 days. No can do, they said, you just refilled 2 weeks ago. So husband ran out of pills during the trip and had to go unmedicated. They don't pay for it anyway because our deductible is so high, but the fact that they want to ration their medicine and can't trust the patient or the doctor is most infuriating. It's only going to get worse I'm afraid. Obama's plan is not the answer. |
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| mike in houston | Jul 6 2009, 08:27 AM Post #5 |
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http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/07/emergency-democrat-health-care-by.html 0: The number of unrehearsed, unscripted questions asked of President Obama during his "Town Hall" on health care reform. 13: The number of teeth that British veteran Ian Boynton pulled out himself with pliers "because he couldn't find an NHS (National Health Service) dentist... [he] could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain." 14: The percentage of all patients in Britain who wait more than one (1) year to receive treatment after a referral by a general practitioner. Half of all National Health Care patients in Britain wait between 18 and 52 weeks for treatment. 37: The "health care ranking" assigned to the U.S. by the World Health Organization among the world's countries. This oft-quoted number is used to justify an overhaul of the U.S. health care system and lists countries like Italy (2), Andorra (4), Malta (5), Singapore (6), Oman (8), Portugal (12), Greece (14), the United Kingdom (18), Ireland (19), Columbia (22), Cyprus (24), Saudi Arabia (26), the UAE (27), Morocco (29), Canada (30), Chile (33), the Dominican Republic (35) and Costa Rica (36) ahead of the U.S. Considering that no U.S. citizens travel to these countries when experiencing a life-threatening situation, it's worth questioning the methods by which the WHO arrived at these rankings. Their criteria included subjective and political assessments such as "Fairness in financial contribution". Suffice it to say that the WHO's rankings are clearly fraudulent and are designed to influence U.S. policy. 60: Average cancer survival rate (all types) for patients in the United States. Canada's survival rate is significantly lower at 55%, while Europe's is a dismal 48%. 81: Average percentage of those who survive a diagnosis of prostate cancer in the United States versus 43% in Britain under their National Health Service. 90: Number of days, on average, each Canadian patient must wait for an MRI under the Canadian government-run health care system. snip |
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