Britain apologises for 'Third World' hospital

Here is the "change" Obama is going to bring to our health care system.
Actually, if he keeps being a hard core monopoly money liberal, our entire country might start looking like a third world country.
Lets hope in two year the American people have had enough of total liberal power and get some people in congress to stop him.

Deaths caused by hospital mistakes 'up 60 per cent in two years'

Read about a country with socialized medicine...
How bad will we let things get (read bad as liberal) before we see that all this stuff has been done, and has failed...

HOW 'LIBERAL' CARE WOULD KILL TED

IRONICALLY enough, the dangers of the lib eral health-care agenda are being made clear by the care that a liberal icon, Sen. Ted Kennedy, has received since his brain seizure last month.
One day after an MRI detected a tumor, Kennedy was quickly diagnosed with a malignant glioma - a rare and often-fatal form of brain cancer. Less than two weeks later, his tumor was being removed by one of the world's experts in brain cancer at Duke Univeristy Medical Center. He'll follow up with chemo and radiation therapy tailored to the genetic makeup of his cancer to keep the cancer from spreading.
He'll likely take Avastin, a drug that in experiments with brain cancer has extended survival by months. A new cancer vaccine being developed in partnership with Pfizer could extend his life by six years.
Of course, with his wealth and power, Kennedy would get good treatment anywhere. But the same care is available to every American.
Not so - if we make the health "reforms" called for by Kennedy and other liberals.
Filmmaker Michael Moore gives their standard line when he says: "There are problems in all health-care systems, but at least Europeans and Canadians have a health-care system that covers everyone."
Problem is, governments that promise to "cover everyone" always wind up cutting corners simply to save money. People with Kennedy's condition are dying or dead as a result.
Consider Jennifer Bell of Norwich, England. In 2006, the 22-year-old complained of headaches for months - but Britain's National Health Service made her wait a year to see a neurologist.
Then she had to wait more than three months before should could get what the NHS decided was only a "relatively urgent" MRI scan. Three days before the MRI appointment, she died.
Consider, too, the chemo drug Kennedy is receiving: Temodar, the first oral medicine for brain tumors in 25 years.
Temodar has been widely used in this country since the FDA approved it in 2000. But a British health-care rationing agency, the National Institute for Comparative Effectiveness, ruled that, while the drug helps people live longer, it wasn't worth the money - and denied coverage for it.
Barack Obama - and other Democrats - have been pushing a Senate bill to set up a similar US "review board" for Medicare and any future government health-care plan.
After denying this treatment completely for seven years, the NICE (did whoever named it intend the irony?) relented - partly. Even today, only a handful of Brits with brain tumors can get Temodar.
And if you want to pay for Temodar out of your own pocket, the British system forces you to pay for all of your cancer care - about $30,000 a month.
Things are no different in Canada, where the wait for an MRI (once you finally get a referral) has grown to 10 weeks. For Canadians relying on their government health care, the average wait time from diagnosis of cancer to surgery is beyond the guideline set by both the US and European societies for surgical oncology.
And HealthCanada, the government system, similar refuses to pay for treatments that are often covered in America.
Chad Curley, a 37-year-old auto worker from Windsor, Ontario, had a brain tumor like Kennedy's but can't have surgery because his is too large to be operable.
His tumor didn't respond to Temodar and the same doctors now treating Sen. Kennedy told him and his wife that the Avastin combination could stop his tumor from growing and add months to his life. But HealthCanada wouldn't pay to use Avastin to treat his tumor.
Chad's family and friends scraped together the $5,000 for the first round of treatment in mid-November; they later saw Chad's left-side paralysis start to subside. But the money ran out - and he died on Feb. 21.
In pushing for government-run health care, liberals are pushing for a system where only the Ted Kennedys of the world can get cutting-edge - and life-saving - care.

Brits in record numbers go abroad for health care

More than 70,000 Britons will have treatment abroad this year, the London Sunday Telegraph reported, a number that is forecast to rise to 200,000 by 2010.

In the first survey of its kind in the UK, Britons said long waits for treatment by the NHS and fears of the growing hospital-infection crisis were the primary reasons they chose to seek medical care elsewhere.

It's a no-brainer...government run health care does not work ANYWHERE. Also, the bigger the program, the worse it is. DO NOT LET DEMOCRATS RUIN YOUR HEALTH CARE.

Clinton has no answers for undocumented immigrants

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Let me help you out...they can get health coverage in the country they should be living in.

At a press briefing after Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's health care rollout Monday, senior policy advisers said the New York senator's plan does not currently include any details on whether illegal immigrants will be covered.
Senior policy adviser Laurie Rubiner–while acknowledging that undocumented immigrants are a "huge issue" in this country–said, "That's one we're going to have to think through a little bit."
"We have not dealt with every single detail with this plan," Rubiner continued.
When asked if it would be safe to assume that the Democratic frontrunner, at this point, has no position on coverage for illegal immigrants advisers answered "yes" and said the plan does not "at this point" deal with that issue.

Clinton to offer health care plan

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With a price tag of about $110 billion per year
You know that number would go up and up and up

With 47 million Americans currently uninsured
Where do we get that number? I teach kids who are poor and need to have health insurance to play sports. The only ones who do not have insurance are kids whose citizenship is "questionable" and kids whose parents are such pathetic losers that they can't even fill out the forms they need to get free insurance.

So my tax money is now going to go for illegal immigrants and lazy, pathetic losers who can't even do the small amount of work to get the free insurance that already exists. This is ridiculous.

ANOTHER story of socialized medicine at work

From RDW

Stroke patients 'dying from poor treatment'By Rebecca Smith, Medical EditorLast Updated: 3:13am BST 24/08/2007Stroke victims are "dying unnecessarily" because Britain provides some of the worst treatment in Europe.Despite spending just as much if not more on stroke services, more patients die and suffer serious disability than elsewhere, warned a neuroscience expert.Professor Hugh Markus, of the Centre for Clinical Neuroscience, St George's University of London, says stroke is treated as a "Cinderella" subject.He writes in the British Medical Journal today that the UK spends the majority of its stroke money on nursing and rehabilitation.But if more investment was directed at treating the stroke immediately, it could avoid many deaths and cases of severe disability and so reduce the cost of nursing care.Stroke must be treated as an emergency because patients who have a brain scan and start treatment with clot-busting drugs within three hours have a better chance of surviving and making a fuller recovery. But many hospitals struggle to carry out a scan within 24 hours.It was estimated that 550 lives could be saved each year and 1,700 patients spared disability if care was improved.Just one in 100 stroke patients get thrombolytic treatment compared with up to 30 per cent in some European countries, America and Australia.

The rest.

Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers

I'm sure they will do a better job with our health care...

A Canadian Doctor Describes How Socialized Medicine Doesn't Work

Story as heard on The Mark Belling Program hosted by Kevin Fischer...

I have not yet been able to understand why liberals want socialized medicine so bad. Yes, everyone is covered, but this liberal idea happens like all others. Instead of raising the level of service to the best, this idea would give it to all, but everyone would then have bad health coverage and bad health care:

I was once a believer in socialized medicine. As a Canadian, I had soaked up the belief that government-run health care was truly compassionate. What I knew about American health care was unappealing: high expenses and lots of uninsured people.
My health care prejudices crumbled on the way to a medical school class. On a subzero Winnipeg morning in 1997, I cut across the hospital emergency room to shave a few minutes off my frigid commute.
Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank with sweat and urine. Right then, I began to reconsider everything that I thought I knew about Canadian health care.
I soon discovered that the problems went well beyond overcrowded ERs. Patients had to wait for practically any diagnostic test or procedure, such as the man with persistent pain from a hernia operation whom we referred to a pain clinic — with a three-year wait list; or the woman with breast cancer who needed to wait four months for radiation therapy, when the standard of care was four weeks.
Government researchers now note that more than 1.5 million Ontarians (or 12% of that province's population) can't find family physicians. Health officials in one Nova Scotia community actually resorted to a lottery to determine who'd get a doctor's appointment.
These problems are not unique to Canada — they characterize all government-run health care systems.
Consider the recent British controversy over a cancer patient who tried to get an appointment with a specialist, only to have it canceled — 48 times. More than 1 million Britons must wait for some type of care, with 200,000 in line for longer than six months. In France, the supply of doctors is so limited that during an August 2003 heat wave — when many doctors were on vacation and hospitals were stretched beyond capacity — 15,000 elderly citizens died. Across Europe, state-of-the-art drugs aren't available. And so on.
Single-payer systems — confronting dirty hospitals, long waiting lists and substandard treatment — are starting to crack, however. Canadian newspapers are filled with stories of people frustrated by long delays for care. Many Canadians, determined to get the care they need, have begun looking not to lotteries — but to markets.

Please, do not let this happen to our health care system. We have the best health care around. Liberals, for some reason, want you to think that we have worse health care than Cuba. Yes, some people do not have insurance. That does not mean we should ruin it for everyone.

Senators push universal health care

I see how the government works in most other areas, I don't think I want them messing with my health...
I see how Canada has this crap, and even though drugs are cheaper, wait time for surgery is much longer, forcing many to come to the US for treatment...
I guess we will have to add this to the list of liberal ideas that will negatively affect our country forever...
Short list:
1. Busing in the late 1960's and early 1970's. This destroyed all inner city public schools. Look at any data, when people were forced to be bussed around, all the white people left. So even though liberals were trying to desegregate schools...they made them permanently segregated and terrible.
2. Welfare...at least at this point they created a permanent underclass of helpless poor people...
3. The projects...those are all gone now...
and the list could go on and on

Walter Reed

I keep hearing all this talk about government sponsored health care, but then I also hear how terrible government health care facilities for our soldiers.
So which way do you want it liberals?
Bitch about how everyone should have health care taken care of by the government?
or
Bitch about how terrible the government runs health care....
And for the rest of you who might want to support national health care, make a list of all government run services and see which side is longer, the "run efficiently" side, or the "run incompetently" side.

Hefty medicine bill a bitter pill

Because of hospital rules and a Medicare loophole, a one-day observation stay brings a $600 tab for medications that Germantown man already had on hand

Come on now!!!
Health care prices are out of control.
Why?
Reasons people give:
1. Illegals and uninsured don't pay their bills, so the rest of us have to absorb the cost.
2. Drug companies and other health care CEO's need to buy a third house.
3. Drug companies spend billions on research and need to come up with new cures.
4. What else can we say?

We need to figure out the actual reasons for this out-of-control industry and fix it.Health care costs are the reasons some businesses have to cut workers (high cost of health insurance).School systems have less teachers than needed.Some businesses have little or no coverage.It is a major problem and it needs to be SERIOUSLY addressed