Actually, it didn’t start off as awful as it is today. When the British government took over, it inherited some capital assets that allowed it to maintain a reasonable level of quality for a while.
But it eventually ran into the same financial issues that afflict all government-run medical systems. Now, it is essentially a third-world health care system, notable for patient neglect:
Hundreds of thousands of elderly people are being denied basic access to medical treatment simply because they live in care homes, a report warns … The British Geriatrics Society, which conducted the inquiry, condemned the “betrayalâ€? of elderly residents by an NHS that is “ageistâ€? and treats patients in care homes as a ‘low priority.’
And unsafe equipment:
Patients are being put at risk because faulty surgical equipment is routinely used in operations in NHS hospitals, an investigation has found … Experts say as many as a fifth of the scalpels, forceps, clamps and other instruments used in surgery would fail basic safety checks.
And, just a reminder for anyone who may have forgotten: The NHS is the health care system most admired by Donald Berwick, President Obama’s Medicare czar. He has quite literally said he “loves” the NHS.
Think about that, and the scary stuff noted above, as you mark your calendar with a big red X over November 6, 2012.Â
[ht Michelle Malkin]
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