07-11-2007, 10:00 AM
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I'm glad French healthcare is working, but British healthcare seems to be having trouble:
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NHS funding for kids' braces slashed by 20 per cent
12/17/06 The Daily Mail
Some news from socialized medicine and dentistry in Great Britain:
Parents are being forced to pay thousands of pounds for braces for their children's teeth after the Government slashed the number of youngsters eligible for free treatment.
Rationing of orthodontic treatment means more than 7,000 children and teenagers with crooked teeth are being turned down for braces and other corrective dental work each month, orthodontists have warned.
Many have no option but to go private - a path that costs their parents up to £4,500 for a set of braces.
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Arthritis patients denied drugs
10/11/06 Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Many British arthritis patients are still being denied a new generation of medicines, despite a government pledge four years ago to make them universally available, according to research published on Wednesday.
Although the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) approved anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) drugs for rheumatoid arthritis in 2002, access to them still varies widely.
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Doctors opt to have private operations
3/26/06 Times Online
More news from the socialized medical system of Britain:
HOSPITAL consultants are spurning the National Health Service by paying for medical insurance so they can be treated privately if they become ill.
A survey of 500 consultants, commissioned by Bupa, the health insurer, found that 41% of senior hospital doctors have invested in private health cover.
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British Clinic Is Allowed to Deny Medicine
2/6/06 New York Times
An article detailing how a British citizen, who has had taxes forcibly confiscated from her her whole life, is now unable to get a drug that she wants and her doctor recommends. She can't afford it privately, but I wonder if she could afford it if she had access to all the money she has paid into the health care system.
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Posted 11/24/05
No new hips or knees for fat patients
11/23/05 Time
More news from Great Britain's socialized medical paradise:
The team agreed that patients with a body mass index of 30 or more — recognised by the World Health Or ganisation as obese — should not be referred to surgeons for hip and knee replacements. In Britain, a fifth of men and a quarter of women are estimated to be obese. Despite paying taxes to the system all their lives, these 'obese' citizens, as defined by government, cannot receive these transplants
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Go private or wait 80 weeks, patient told
6/18/05
UK Times
Britian's vaunted Health System is suffering from the same effects Canada's Health system faces. Socialism fails again. A hospital told a road accident victim that she would have to wait a year and a half for an NHS brain scan, but could have the procedure done privately at the same unit in two weeks,
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Originally Posted by Eric5273
You have to get over the whole 9/11 thing buddy.
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Originally Posted by Winston Churchill
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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