Mark Levin exposes tip of the iceberg on Obama’s hellbound slide to Socialized Healthcare
July 4th, 2009
Trusting politicians with your healthcare … so, how’s it going in Great Britian?
Mark Levin Show
Great Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) was created on July 5, 1948. As with all government programs, bureaucrats underestimated initial cost projections. First-year operating costs of NHS were 52 million pounds higher than original estimates1 as Britons saturated the so-called free system.Many decades of shortages, misery and suffering followed until 1989, when some market-based health care competition was reintroduced to the British citizens2.
Unfortunately for those requiring care, a mostly socialist health care system has problems. The articles and commentaries in this section identify some disasters caused by government intervention in the British health care system.
I also recommend reading David G. Green and Laura Casper’s economic report, Delay, Denial and Dilution: The Impact of NHS Rationing on Heart Disease and Cancer to see the inevitable outcome of the necessary rationing of government health care.
Straight from the newspapers
- Kidney cancer patients denied life-saving drugs by NHS rationing body NICE
- April 29, 2009 [Daily Mail (UK)]- Girl, 3, has heart operation cancelled three times because of bed shortage
- David Rose, April 23, 2009 [Times Online]- Number of children going to hospital to have teeth pulled soars by 66% since 1997
- Daniel Martin and Cher Thornhill, April 12, 2009 [Daily Mail (UK)]- NHS ‘failings’ over elderly falls
- March 25, 2009 [BBC]- Learning disabled ‘failed by NHS’
- Nick Triggle, March 24, 2009 [BBC]- Cancer survivor confronts the health secretary on 62-day wait
- Lyndsay Moss, March 21, 2009 [The Scotsman]- Culture of targets prevents nurses from tending to patients
- Claire Rayner, President of the Patients Association, March 21, 2009 [Telegraph UK]- Children being failed by health system, says head of watchdog
- Sarah Boseley, March 21, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]- Our cancer shame: Survival rates still lag behind EU despite spending billions
- Jenny Hope, March 20, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]- Failing hospital ’caused deaths’
- March 17, 2009 [BBC]- Health gap drive ‘wasted money’
- Nick Triggle, March 14, 2009 [BBC]- Longer GP opening hours branded wasteful ‘PR exercise’ by doctors
- Lyndsay Moss, March 13, 2009 [The Scotsman]- “Political meddling” threatens general practice, warns GP leader
- March 13, 2009 [Management in Practice (UK)]- Children at risk through lack of training for doctors and nurses, report warns
- Rebecca Smith, March 13, 2009 [Telegraph UK]- Chocolate should be taxed to control obesity epidemic, doctors are told
- Simon Johnson, March 13, 2009 [Telegraph UK]- 1,000 villagers wait for a dentist after just one NHS practice opens
- March 10, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]- Study that proves the folly of NHS Alzheimer’s drug ban
- Jenny Hope, March 7, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]- NHS charges to rise in England
- March 5, 2009 [BBC]- Disabled children wait up to two years for wheelchairs
- March 4, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]- NHS under fire over waiting times
- February 25, 2009 [The Scotsman]- Government procrastination blamed for HIV-contaminated blood tragedy
- February 23, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]- Specialist nurses ‘vastly overworked’
- February 20, 2009 [Harwich & Manningtree Standard]- Hundreds of operations cancelled at Lothian hospitals
- Adam Morris, February 19, 2009 [The Scotsman]- Stop asking for antibiotics to cure coughs and colds, Government tells patients
- Daniel Martin, February 17, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]- Stroke services are ‘UK’s worst’
- February 17, 2009 [BBC]- Hospitals curb caesarean births
- Sarah-Kate Templeton, February 15, 2009 [The Times]- Only five out of 51 hospital trusts pass hygiene test, say inspectors
- Sarah Boseley, November 24, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]- Top doctors slam NHS drug rationing
- Sarah-Kate Templeton, August 24, 2008 [The Times]- Heart patients dying due to poor hospital care, says report
- Sarah Boseley, June 8, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]- NHS dentistry loses almost a million patients after new dentists’ contract
- David Rose, June 6, 2008 [The Times]- Private healthcare managers could be sent to turn round failing NHS hospitals
- Philip Webster, Political Editor, and David Rose, June 4, 2008 [The Times]- Cancer patients ‘betrayed’ by NHS
- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]- NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay
- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]- Pensioner, 76, forced to pull out own teeth after 12 NHS dentists refuse to treat her
- Olinka Koster, March 26, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]- Dental patients face care lottery
- March 26, 2008 [Metro(UK)]- Lung patients ‘condemned to death as NHS withdraws their too expensive drugs’
- Jenny Hope, March 24, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]- Women in labour turned away by maternity units
- John Carvel, March 21, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]- Health inequality has got worse under Labour, says government report
- Andrew Sparrow, March 13, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]- Angry GPs reluctantly accept plan for weekend and evening surgeries
- John Carvel, March 7, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]- NHS chiefs tell grandmother, 61, she’s ‘too old’ for £5,000 life-saving heart surgery
- Chris Brooke, February 28, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]- Patient ‘removed’ from waiting list to meet target
- January 31, 2008 [The Scotsman]- NHS patients told to treat themselves
- James Kirkup, January 4, 2008 [Telegraph UK]- NHS is ‘failing patients’ despite record funding
- Rebecca Smith, October 4, 2007 [Telegraph UK]- NHS rationing rife, say doctors
- September 24, 2007 [BBC]- One in eight patients waiting over a year for treatment, admits minister
- John Carvel, June 8, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]- Audit Office asked to investigate record £500m NHS underspend
- John Carvel, May 30, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]- The drugs the NHS won’t give you
- May 11, 2007 [Telegraph UK]- UK lagging behind on cancer drug access, study finds
- May 10, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]- One in six trusts is still putting patients on mixed-sex wards
- Daniel Martin, May 10, 2007 [Daily Mail(UK)]- Specialist stroke care ‘lottery’
- May 9, 2007 [BBC News]- Smokers and the obese banned from UK hospitals
- May 2, 2007 [Healthcare News]- Cancer patients told life-prolonging treatment is too expensive for NHS
- Lyndsay Moss, February 13, 2007 [The Scotsman]- UK health service “harms 10 percent of patients”
- Kate Kelland, July 7, 2006 [Reuters]- 5,000 elderly ‘killed each year’ by lack of care beds
- June 26, 2006 [Telegraph UK]- Dental Socialism in Britain
- Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., May 9, 2006 [LewRockwell.com]- Pay for nurses and surgeons doubles NHS overspend
- Beezy Marsh, Patrick Hennessy and Nina Goswami, April 23, 2006 [Telegraph UK]- The money addicts: it’s your cash they are gambling with
- Patience Wheatcroft, April 23, 2006 [Telegraph UK]- NHS chiefs get luxury car deals
- Daniel Foggo and Steven Swinford, April 9, 2006 [The Times]- Secret NHS plan to ration patient care
- Nigel Hawkes, April 7, 2006 [The Times]- British Healthcare To Be Rationed
- April 7, 2006 [United Press International]- British body rejects EPO drugs for cancer patients
- March 17, 2006 [Reuters]- National Health Service – Grappling with Deficits
- March 9, 2006 [Economist.com]- Hundreds wait to register as another dentist quits the NHS
- Martin Williams, September 23, 2005 [The Herald (Scotland)]- Life-saving cancer drugs ‘kept from NHS patients by red tape’
- Sam Lister, September 20, 2005 [The Times]- NHS slides into the red despite record increases in health care spending
- September 20, 2005 [Telegraph UK]- Alzheimer’s sufferers hit by further delay in NHS approval for vital drugs
- Michael Day, September 18, 2005 [Telegraph UK]- We all pay a price for our ‘free’ NHS
- John Smith, August 19, 2005 [The Scotsman]- 2,000 British doctors out of work
- August 14, 2005 [The Washington Times]- UK health ‘unsustainable’
- August 14, 2005 [Finance24]- NHS faces rising bill for negligence claims
- Ben Hall, August 8, 2005 [Financial Times]- British boy to go to India for operation
- August 5, 2005 [United Press International]- NHS failed to stop doctor raping scores of women
- Lois Rogers and Jonathon Carr-Brown, July 31, 2005 [The Times]- Top crimewriter funds drugs for cancer victim refused by NHS
- Martyn Halle, July 8, 2005 [Telegraph UK]- Report says NHS is mired in huge debts
- David Simms, June 25, 2005 [ABC Money (UK)]- U.K. set to restrict smoking
- June 21, 2005 [The Associated Press]- NHS ‘fund bias’ against men may cost 2,500 lives a year
- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 19, 2005 [The Times]- Doubts on funding NHS ‘monuments’
- Nicholas Timmins, June 10, 2005 [Financial Times]- 17 million reasons why we must improve hospital meals
- June 7, 2005 [Cambridge Evening News]- Figures show more patients waiting for operations
- June 3, 2005 [Guardian UK]- Scarcity of NHS dental treatment is revealed
- Celia Hall, May 19, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]- Why NHS Opposes ‘Treatment by Demand’ for the Dying
- Stephen Howard and Jan Colley, PA, May 18, 2005 [Scotsman]- 800 queue for NHS dentists
- May 5, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]- Hundreds more heroin addicts to be given a fix on the NHS
- Nic Fleming, April 25, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]- British health service facing nurse exodus
- April 25, 2005 [United Press International]- About 400 patients a year in Scotland succumb to MRSA
- April 25, 2005 [Scotsman]- NHS debts soar to over £1bn
- Karyn Miller, April 24, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]- British taxpayers foot $26.5 million bill for abortion tourists
- April 18, 2005 [Catholic World News]- U.K. Liberal Democrats Would Raise Taxes to Pay for Health Care
- Reed Landberg, April 14, 2005 [Bloomberg]- Number of NHS Bureaucrats ‘Rising Faster Than Health Staff’
- Joe Churcher, March 22, 2005 [Scotsman]- ‘£500m hole’ in hospital budgets
- Celia Hall, March 21, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]- 1,000 Scots desert NHS every week
- Murdo Macleod, March 5, 2005 [Scotsman]- British NHS facing financial crisis
- March 3, 2005 [Washington Times]- NHS drugs regulator to withdraw approval of Alzheimer’s treatment
- Nicholas Timmins, March 2, 2005 [FT.com - Financial Times]- NHS waiting list rises
- February 11, 2005 [Guardian UK]- Tumour patients hit by NHS shortages
- Jo Revill, February 6, 2005 [Guardian UK]- NHS financial crises set to outlast winter
- Mike Waites, February 4, 2005 [Yorkshire Post]- NHS 24 ‘priority’ callers wait four hours for advice
- Caroline Wilson, January 14, 2005 [Evening Times (UK)]- ‘No strategy’ on NHS waiting time
- January 14, 2005 [BBC]- Output figures show NHS decline
- John Carvel, October 19, 2004 [Guardian UK]- Heart patients die on waiting lists
- Peter Sharples, October 18, 2004 [Manchester Online]- £25bn overspend feared for NHS computer network
- Karen Attwood, October 12, 2004 [telegraph.co.uk]- Gaps in care cost £7bn, says charity
- John Carvel, October 4, 2004 [Guardian UK]- NHS excluding poor people, UK
- September 15, 2004 [Medical News Today]- Smokers ’should not get NHS care’
- September 6, 2004 [BBC News]- Waiting list row blights Brighton
- John Carvel, September 4, 2004 [Guardian UK]- Patients are denied the last rites under data protection law
- Elizabeth Day, July 25, 2004 [telegraph.co.uk]- Shortage of dentists to double by 2011
- John Carvel, July 24, 2004 [Guardian UK]- Britain’s stiff upper lip gives way to a snarl
- Sarah Lyall, July 18, 2004 [The New York Times]- Hospital Overcrowding A Cause of Superbug Infections
- John von Radowitz, July 1, 2004 [Scotsman.com]- Hospital Crisis: Fallen Angels
- Lindsay Mcgarvie, May 23, 2004 [Glasgow Sunday Mail]- Study finds British hospitals are still austere, cold, smelly and poorly maintained
- May 6, 2004 [News-Medical.net]- Hospital bathrooms and showers: a continuing saga of inadequacy
- Andy Monro, MRCP & Graham P Mulley, DM, FRCP, May 2004 [Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine]- Majority back public smoking ban
- March 24, 2004 [BBC]- Discrimination Rampant In British Health Care
- Peter Moore, November 17, 2003 [365gay.com]- PERIPATETICS-To the Medical Socialists of All Parties
- Sheldon Richman, September 2003 [FEE.org]- Creeping Privatization?
Shortages of skilled workers, low morale, long queues for services, crumbling facilities and corrupt practises. - Roland Watson, August 6, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]- The World’s Worst HMO
- Stephen D. Moore, November 24, 1999 [Random Thoughts]- Socialized Medicine in Great Britain: Lessons for the Oregon Health Plan
- Professor John Spiers, March 18, 1999 [Cascade Policy Institute]- The Sickbed Which is Socialized British Medicine
- December 23, 1997 [NCPA]- The British Way of Withholding Care
- Harry Schwarz, March 1989 [FEE.org]
THIS AIN’T THE HALF-OF-IT — READ MORE HERE.
These links don’t even include the dreadful headlines ALREADY addressing current government controlled healthcare in the United States … visit Mark’s site for more!
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