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August 18, 2007
Socialized Medicine Death Sentences in Scotland
Posted by Dave Blount at August 18, 2007 10:14 AM
From Scotland, land of enlightened socialized medicine:
Cancer patients are still waiting up to seven months for treatment.
Patients are supposed to be treated within 62 days of urgent referral.
But figures out yesterday showed only three areas in Scotland were meeting those targets every time.
In the worst cases, sufferers were kept hanging on for 220 days.
The only way to beat cancer is with immediate treatment — like you tend to get under free enterprise. A 220-day wait period for urgent treatment is a death sentence.
Yet there are Americans who will vote for Democrats, though it will result in our healthcare system being replaced by the sort of dysfunctional bureaucracy they have in Scotland. Mostly this can be ascribed to ignorance; few liberals ever poke their heads outside the propaganda bubble created by the mainstream media.
For those who have a clue what's going on in the world who would move us toward socialism anyway, the only explanation is a death wish.
Artist's depiction of socialized medicine.
On a tip from V the K.
