Interesting row seems to have developed over last few days as a senior UK conservative politician has said he would "not wish the NHS" onto the Americans.
Two days ago Gordon Brown appeared on our TV stating how good our health service was. Similarly our health minister stated that queues were small in the NHS.....
The truth? This blog records the accurate diary of one cancer sufferer, how test results were lost for 6 weeks and it took a year to get to see the consultant oncologist.....Each entry is accurately dated, a scan will reveal the aweful truth of Jan's treatment.
On the same day that this row broke out, a neighbour walked past to go for a swim on the nearby beach. He was pleased as punch to be fit again, having had a heart pacemaker fitted three months earlier....I asked, he had gone private. Why after paying taxes to cover this on the NHS did he pay yet again to go private?
His response was to get a quicker result, a 3 month wait in the private system instead of a 6 month wait on the NHS...he didn't want to wait six months as he described his condition before the op as being at half strength.
Obviously socialised medice as practised by the NHS in the UK means no means testing for vital treatment.
But it means our hospitals are strained by hypochondriacs and malingerers who have no financial dissuasion, and our waiting lists are long.
For the rich who can go private there is the farce of paying twice for the work, once direct to the hospital or insurance company, and again through taxes for a service one declines to use.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
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