The left already is wailing about the Medicare and Medicaid reforms in Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget. They don’t have any solutions of their own for these bankrupt programs, but they hope to scare voters in the short run and don’t seem to care about the nation in the long run.
But, as Margaret Thatcher famously warned, the problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money. With that in mind, it’s quite appropriate to cite a story about another needless death resulting from the inefficient U.K. government-run health care system.
But what makes this story so remarkable is that the person who died was part of the upper-level bureaucracy. When folks relatively high in the pecking order start suffering from needless death and wind up having their surgeries delayed four times, you know it’s just a matter of time before the system collapses.
A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation – at her own hospital. Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex. But her appointments to go under the knife were cancelled four times and she barely regained consciousness after finally having surgery. Her devastated husband, Jim, is now demanding answers from Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust – the organisation where his wife had served as a non-executive member of the board of directors.
Keep in mind that this is America’s future if we don’t reform entitlements. That’s what the leftist critics of Ryan’s plan aren’t telling you.
[…] Or sometimes the bureaucracy waits for you to die over nine months rather than 10 hours. […]
I saw this last week online. and i agree with Mr.Mitchell. And i remember a few years ago where a young kid did not take care of his teeth and his mom did not take him to the Dentist and that kid, in {Maryland}, had some bacteria go to his brain and it knocked him off.
This is where the country is going as the gov is going to bankrupt everybody and itself go under and then the Congress throws their hands up and says sorry folks we can,t pay for anything as it we are bankrupt and still send in your cheks each week to pay for whatever. morons. Socialism does not work and the free market will always work.
the health care system will really be if you are super rich you will be able to get it. if not then wait in line and if over age 70 forget it. and also watch for assisted sucide laws all across the land. As states come with their own Dr. Death. Hey here is a handful of pills to help you on your way.
If this is a direct result of the fact that they have govt healthcare, then I’d think we’d be hearing stories like this about Medicaid now… Why don’t we?
Also, we certainly have thousands of cases like this a year… amongst the uninsured.
And lastly, we haven’t “run out of other people’s money” we’ve given it to wall street, or they’ve taken it, depending how you look at it.