NHS Cornwall moved her to a private hospital and funded the expenses.
After how long of a wait?
That was written in November 2001, its staff has since been expanded.
So the moral of the story is, people will suffer for years until things are fixed. Here's to hoping we're not one of the unlucky. Not acceptable.
Orthodontists say that in many parts of England, the NHS has effectively ceased to provide corrective dental surgery for children.
That was because in those parts of England, the private sector, which was forced to compete with the national health service, offered better prices and smaller waiting lists, which led to large privatization of healthcare in that area and with it a lack of Orthodontists for the national healthcare service. Says so in the article.
Ah, so it's all because of competition and the high rate of acceptance of the NHS. :roll:
Waiting 7 years is never acceptable.
Another reason why national health care is good: it forces competition amongst private sector healthcare units.
It also forces competition out - meaning there are less doctors and less private places to go to, meaning that demand increases while supply dwindles and government artificially deflates prices, running private hospitals and insurance out. Not a good motivation for attracting talented medical workers and surgeons.
Also, as those citizens pay their national health tax, they are obliged to be transferred to a private ward and their expenses funded by the UHC. All you need to do is contact your local member of parliament or ask your doctor for a referral.
FORCED to pay the health tax you mean --- and I find it insane to call my government to get a medical referral. Do I also call my plumber to procure a referral to a good bank? This might work in down-trodden and government soaked Europe but there will be riots if this is how it works in the U.S.
There are, i believe, about 2 lists. The first list is the normal waiting list - depending on what you want, you could wait up to anything within 18 months of seeing you GP.
Whew... let's hope it's not cancer then eh? Or heart disease... or mini strokes... maybe this is one of those secondary benefits under the moniker of "population control". I can get a GP today, within a few hours... why the hell would anyone want to wait 18 months? What ****ing planet are people living on that they accept this?
Then there is the special list for people in agony but are able to eliminate the pain with morphine tablets and other medication the UHC provides
Well thank God for the steady stream of morphine... a few years on morphine is much better than getting the problem taken care of within a month don't you think?
and then for those who need life saving surgery should recieve it almost immediately or be transferred to the private sector and funded by the national government, paticularly if your finances are not enough to pay off the debts.
Again, who makes this determination of "who needs life saving surgery"? And it sounds like - if the UHC cannot handle it, the financial burden goes back on the individual anyway which is what the U.S. has now.. so what the hell am I benefiting again? Let's recap:
- 18 month waits on GP visits
- 2 priority lists, possibly three with bureaucrats making decisions about your health
- Free morphine tablets
- If you really need attention now, a transfer to the private sector where you have to pay out of pocket anyway
Holy ****...
Then you have the option to switching to private healthcare which is always their for those, such as yourself, fortunate enough to obtain such services. If you can prove you are financially unable to do this, however, the UHC will fund it, and will do so anyway if they transfer you themselves. Remember the difference between transferral and referral.
We have this now with no waits, immediate diagnostics, and quick procedures with no addictive morphine tablets or years of waiting. If the UHC funds it - the individual must wait on the previous lists and we're back to square one. A bullet in the head sounds preferable - which is the last option I assume though in England, guns are hard to come by and now I know why.
The NHS is paticularly useful for those who have medical conditions and require expensive medication. These sorts of services that do not rely on Doctors under huge pressure from the system are offered immediately, more often than not.
Good for drugs, bad for procedures and hope you don't have an aggressive cancer or you'll have to convince Parliament that one is very sick. We all have to become very good sales people apparently to sell our illness to get treatment in a timely manner.
There is no doubt that National Health Care almost always results in huge amounts of demand from the system. This type of thing is inevitable; but it doesnt render UHC bad. Because, you will recieve the medication eventually
Unless you die first, in which case it's not the fault of NHS because there's just too much demand... :roll:
and you do have the option to change to private or recieve UHC funding. All you can hope for is that Obama legislates it so that it is properly staffed and financed; otherwise, there should be no problem. Here in the UK, i believe there is quiet a staff shortage, but we have far less employement potential compared to the 300 million large America.
Sounds like a ****ing nightmare... The only comfort is the liberals will hopefully suffer just as much as everyone else. There's a little space in hell hopefully for all those wanting to throw away a perfectly good system that needs only to be fixed in certain areas - which treat people immediately, provide diagnostics immediately. If we thought dealing with Insurance company's was bad ... just wait until we have to deal with the government and we get the news: "Oh I'm sorry sir/madam, we have you scheduled for 2013, January 9th for your tumor removal. Until then, here! Have some complimentary morphine pills!"
Makes me want to vomit.
I also noticed you didn't address the last link I provided showing how the NHS is causing deaths... how come?
