Since the president Elect and his cronies seem to be advocates and desire to impliment change in our health care system, they need to look at those already in place.
Starved to death in an NHS hospital: Damning inquiry highlights case of patient left without food for 26 days
This story is of a man who at 43 years of age had a stroke. He also had downs syndrome. He had a naso gastric tube for feeding...but the nurses did not feed him because the dr. had not written a note to have the man fed!
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Emma Kemp, 26, was denied cancer treatment that could have saved her life, while 30-year-old Mark Cannon died two months after being admitted to hospital with a broken leg. Both of these people were "challenged" and had problems speaking, the gentleman with the broken leg died of septicemia...after being discharged.
Then this story:
How about the new mother-to-be showing up in labor and needed an emergency c section. The baby was breach and in distress. The hospital could not perform a c section because to save nomey, there was no ansthesiologist on duty "after hours". The baby died.
What about the call recorded from an amublance service. A gentleman called for emergency help, left his phone off the hook. The EMT's did not realize this and made no effort to save the patient, instead commenting on his house and saying it was not worth saving this man. The man died.
Two young mothers have died of pneumonia since Christmas after being told by medical staff that they had nothing worse than a bout of flu or a virus.
My cousins wife went in to the ER in November, they have diagnosed her with gallstones, tenetatively, she is STILL waiting for a dr appt with her regular doctor to be treated for this....and as far as being "free", my cousin is taxed about 500/month for NHS alone!
A friend of my mothers needs surgery on her lungs, NHS will not due it because she has a history of smoking....she quit smoking 25 years ago!
No, these stories are not made up...In 1980, my father was stationed in England (I am a very proud product of a career serviceman and his beloved wife, support and friend) Because my mother is English and we spent time over there, I qualified for NHS as a child. I was living with my grandparents in Bedford and working. On the way home for lunch, I was hit by a car and rushed to the hospital. I spent 2 days in hospital before seeing a dr. There was no room in the orthopedic ward so I was in an open ward in geriatrics. After x-rays etc, I was casted and sent on my way. Now I have terrible pain in my knee, I needed then and still need surgery on my knee that should have been performed at the time of the hospitalization, but the dr was incompetent.
How about the young man with cancer who was denied life saving treatment because the cost was to expensive, and he was told that if he paid for it himself, he would be removed from NHS.
In the Bedford hospital, the community had fund raisers to purchase an MRI machine, the hospital now is limited to when they can use it because they rent it out to doctors who have "private" patients thus restricting the use of it by the very people who raised the money to purchase it.
Do not think for a moment that these stories are rare, those that can afford it over there now by private insurance, the cost's are more than we can even imagine. The NHS rations care according to illness, medical history and age.
My father had to go to the "local" va hospital which is about 2 1/2 hours away from us. The conditions were appalling, a government run hospital. The national news has uncovered horror stories about the VA hospitals and the conditions in which our military heroes are treated, and this is what the idiots in office want to do for us? NO THANKS.
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