New Report: Britain's NHS Is Collapsing, Mirroring 2012 Report
British media reports that their governmental health scheme, the National Health Service (NHS), is near financial collapse. Care is being rationed at an accelerating rate as funding is exhausted. Bureaucrats are using complex mathematical formulas to determine who gets care based on how many more productive, taxpaying years they have left in their life.
If only someone had seen this coming.
Oh, they did. This new report pretty much mirrors what they were saying in 2012, when it was revealed that sick babies were being starved to death, very young and very old patients were being sent into end-of-life care for fiscal reasons, patients were having medical information and treatments withheld so that they would not choose more expensive care, and public funding of end-of-life programs was influencing doctors' decisions about care they administered.
A new report by a British think tank studied four areas of care: sexual health services, district nursing (nurses who administer in-home care to shut-ins), planned hip operations, and neonatal care. They found that medical services are under significant financial pressure, which leads to care rationing so severe that patients often wait hours for simple pain-management treatment. They note that the problems will only grow more severe, as funding either stays level or decreases while demand grows.
