https://www.newsmax.com/sallypipes/nhs-starmer-sanders/2024/07/17/id/1172934/
OPINION
U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare
By Sally Pipes Wednesday, 17 July 2024 02:43 PM EDT
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Last year, an average of 268 British patients died each week as a result of hospital admission delays in the nation’s emergency rooms, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
In England, the number of patients awaiting treatment referrals rose to 7.6 million as of the end of April.
That’s roughly 13% of its entire population.
There’s no shortage of lamentation from British officials about the rising death tolls and growing wait lists endemic to the NHS.
Britain’s new Health Secretary, the Labour Party’s Wes Streeting, even made headlines this week by declaring that “From today, the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken.”
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All of this tumult in Britain should give Americans pause the next time leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., celebrate the virtues of government-dominated health care.
Just last year, Sanders implored Britons: “Do not look at the American model. Please do not. Build on what you have, improve what you have.”
Britain has tried that for decades, with only worsening results.
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American observers take note: Socialized medicine is no dream. It’s a nightmare — and one from which Britain has been unable to awake.
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Hard to imagine that people aren’t dying while waiting for treatment. Seems like “socialized medicine” always has this problem.
Not withstanding Senator Sanders advice, I’d suggest privatizing the whole mess. Real Privatization.
Not like Medicaid, not like Medicare, not like the Veterans Administration healthcare, or not like the Indian Healthcare system.
Go back to the early insurance model, where the recipient must pay and be reimbursed. If they are poor, then the Gooferment can “insure” them but they only pay a small percentage. Same for catastrophic health expenses, pay a percentage. No need for medical bill bankruptcy.
By everyone paying something, I bet enough fraud would be eliminated to pay for the whole thing. (I remember that ½ of all Medicare expense in South Florida was fraudulent. By having a percentage to pay, we can turn all the senior citizens into medical auditors. Ever seen old folks splitting a check at an early bird dinner?)
If you thing the US system is “bad”, then look into the UK’s NHS and its problems.
Argh!
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