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August 18, 2007
Socialized Medicine Death Sentences in Scotland
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.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 18, 2007 10:14 AM
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"Patients are supposed to be treated within 62 days of urgent referral."
The socialists in canada have the same bright idea. The problem of socialized medical systems can be solved by setting an acceptable time line for the wait list. No word on allowing privatized care to cut backlogs and wait times.
From a canadian Reader's Digest survey(April 2005) of hospital administrators:
How often did patients wait six months for elective surgery?
canada: very often or often--32%
U.S.: none
Breast biopsy, three weeks or more wait?
canada: 21%
U.S.: 1%
Routine hip replacement, six month or more waits?
canada: 50%
U.S.: 0%
Many more telling statistics if you look up the article, but even more damning. a whopping 93% of canadian hospital administrators were very, or somewhat satisfied with health care system performance.
Six percent of American administrators were not satisfied at all with health system performance. In canada, not even ONE administrator was not satisfied at all with performance.
So the rot in socialized medicine starts at the top, and runs right down through the 100% government employee unionized staffing. Or, the rot starts with the 100% government employee unionized staffing, and the management has just thrown in the towel, despairing of any improvement.
It should be noted that however poor the outcomes for patients, in canada, each and every one of the staff gets paid world-wide competitive wages and benefits. And every time the government is forced by public pressure to dump more tax dollars into the pot, it is immediately swallowed up by wages and benefits, with very little left to actually address health service issues.
The study also covered England(poorer performance than canada by orders of magnitude), Australia and New Zealand(both marginally better performance than canada), with the U.S. at the top of every category.
The study concludes with the universal smear that the U.S. has millions of uninsured(as if that is justification for this very expensive outrage), and of course no mention of the fact that like everywhere else, virtually no uninsured persons in the U.S. are denied emergency care.
So, my American friends, please reject the foolish move of socialized medicine, because I as a canadian need a nearby place to go to access private care to get required treatments. I've already had to do that, when a needed MRI to diagnose severe, debilitating back pain was available in only four months. I traveled south of the line, had the MRI completed in two days, and on the third day brought the image files home for the doctor.
Cheers!
Slightly off-topic, thanks to all of your brave men and women over in the sand box fighting and dieing to destroy the muslim menace!
Posted by: k. smart at August 18, 2007 1:30 PM
