National Pulse: More than 7.6 million people in the United Kingdom – around 12 percent of the total population – are waiting to receive routine hospital treatment from the country’s socialized healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS), representing the highest figure since records began in 2007 and increasing by another 100,000 since May.
Just under 400,000 people have been on the NHS waiting list for more than a year, around 7,000 people have been waiting for treatment for over 18 months, and more than 20,000 have waited longer than two months (62 days) for urgent cancer screenings, according to data released by NHS England. more
what, pray tell, is an “urgent cancer screenings”? Just anything not a routine screening? Or in typical British understatement any detection dor things not actively killing the patient?
Socalism only shares misery.
Happening here, with the flood of illegals & their turd-world health problems & diseases.
In addition, since Covid, how many of us avoid the Drs. office now?
One example of an urgent cancer screening … A sudden case of urinary blockage in a middle aged man, with no advance warning
One of the only explanations for that is that a highly aggressive cancer has developed in the prostate, which means the prostate must be excised quickly. Any unreasonable delay will allow the cancer to escape the prostate into a nearby lymph node
Now this is very rare, but it happens .. happened to someone I know
Quick call Fauci we’re going to need a new deadlier pandemic and matching vaccine to shorten the waiting list. Step right up sheep.
Bet none of them is named Muhammad….1st in line.
You can’t make a finite resource serve an infinite desire no matter what legislation you pass.
Something no socialist can ever understand.
At snowbird digs south of Tucson, I was listening to all the Canadians playing I-can-top-that with stories about where to find the best medical care in the states. Turns out there are companies all over our northern border who specialize in contracting for medical care, catering to Canadians who will pay for care not available in Canada. About 3 beers later they were all bragging about the wonders of Canada’s socialized medicine. Called them on it. The place went silent for at least a minute.
Of course you have to wait a year or two to see specialist. But what did you expect “for free”?
Managed care is rationed care. Don’t forget the youth in Asia.
This is nothing new. Forty years ago, I had a friend from England who walked with a limp. He had to emigrate to America to get surgery that cured his limp. The UK medical system told him: limps don’t mean you can’t walk. Surgery denied.
Ahh utopia. Laws, laws, we’s reached the promised land. In US those of us who pay for insurance seem to be one to three months out on things. Traumas seem to be dealt with pretty quickly and competently. Everything else, gonna wait. On the bright side the welfare bums have to wait too…. Ehh… why a paying customer gotta wait on a welfare bum?