Wednesday, March 18, 2009

National Healthcare....You really want this?

  • Receptionists carrying out initial checks on patients;
  • Two clinical decision units - one unstaffed - used as 'dumping grounds' for A&E patients to avoid missing waiting targets;
  • Nurses who turned off heart monitors because they didn't understand how to use them;
  • Delayed operations, with some patients having surgery cancelled four days in a row and left without food, drink or medication;
  • Vital equipment such as heart defibrilators was not working
This is exactly what we will get if Obama and Crazy Pelosi get their wish of nationalized healthcare. I still cannot understand how anyone who has been to any local government office, Divers license office for example, would want government to control your access to healthcare. Government entities are the least agile and able to react to changes. They always need to commission a study, then discuss the results for a week before they can decide that changing their paper supplier.

You may not think our current system is all that great. And you are entitle to your opinion...but isn't our system better than the nationalized one in England?

Here...read the rest of the article yourself:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1162552/The-NHS-Third-World-hospital-patients-drank-flower-vases-Inquiry-12-Trusts-1200-died-needlessly.html

The user comments are rather enlightening. Seems to be not just this hospital...but hospitals all over the country. And, the user's are saying they would rather pay for private insurance than deal with this debalce they currently have with the govnerment in charge....