Post by Maggie on Dec 13, 2013 8:21:06 GMT -6
Despite its enormous incompetence and expense, a fair number of Brits still love and defend their National Health Service. Yet government and private reports demonstrate rather conclusively that it is in shambles. Not a week goes by when you cannot pick up a British newspaper and read of some horror-- an elderly war veteran left without food by careless nurses to starve to death in the hospital. Patients drinking the water out of flower vases because they cannot get any water any other way. An 80+ year old woman with broken bones left on a sidewalk outside in frigid air waiting for over an hour for an ambulance that never came. In her case police officers were somehow able to stabilize her and get her to the hospital where neglect will likely kill her.
Three new reports have come out documenting more horrors.
This is what the Democrats have in mind for us. Only the unbelievable incompetence of Obama and his equally incompetent appointees has protected us so far. We must resist this horror or we will deserve what we get.
Three new reports have come out documenting more horrors.
One investigation revealed that a quarter of new mothers were abandoned by their midwives during labour, with some left to give birth on the floor or in corridors.
The second found that mistakes deemed so serious they should never happen are being made in hospitals five times a week.
And the third survey said thousands of patients have all but given up trying to secure appointments with their family doctor.
The reports come only a day after the NHS watchdog detailed a catalogue of failings at GP surgeries, including consulting rooms infested with maggots and patients being given dangerous, out-of-date drugs.
This is what the Democrats have in mind for us. Only the unbelievable incompetence of Obama and his equally incompetent appointees has protected us so far. We must resist this horror or we will deserve what we get.