Democrats must hate Americans if they want to inflict rationed healthcare on patients
Forbes:
U.K.'s Healthcare Horror Stories Ought To Curb Dems' Enthusiasm for Single-PayerWhat Democrats are selling is a fraudulent promise of cheap healthcare for all. Experience has shown that it does not work and leads to rationing of care and results in halting of innovation in medicine. If they were talking to Bob Mueller they would likely be indicted for lying about the benefits of their policies.
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Consider one nurse's letter explaining why she quit the profession. She described horrific working conditions. Medical professionals worked 12-hour shifts with little time for necessities like bathroom breaks or food. Managers felt they couldn't do anything to change unsafe conditions created by overcrowded hospitals. "You cannot safely practice under such conditions," she wrote. "Mistakes will be made and people will be harmed, some fatally."
The shortage of providers has resulted in longer wait times for patients. In May, 4.3 million people in the United Kingdom were on waiting lists for surgery, a 10-year high. Adjusting for population, that would be like having everyone in the state of Florida on waiting lists. Roughly 3,500 British patients have been on hospital waiting lists for more than a year.
More than one in five British cancer patients waits longer than two months to begin treatment after receiving a referral from a general practitioner. In Scotland, fewer than 80 percent of patients receive needed diagnostic tests -- endoscopies, MRIs, CT, scans and the like -- within three months.
These delays are deadly. An analysis that covered just half of England's hospitals found that almost 30,000 patients died in the past year while waiting for treatment -- an increase of 57 percent compared to 2013.
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