Tag Archives: Waiting List

NHS delays treatment for broken arm for four months and counting

Story here from the Sun. (H/T ECM)

Excerpt:

This crippled plumber horribly broke his arm TEN months ago and is still waiting for surgery to repair it.

Torron Eeles busted his left humerus bone leaving it grotesquely out of shape when he fell down stairs.

Today he slammed the NHS for “unacceptable” delays – claiming they have cancelled FOUR separate operations.

His arm hangs limply by his side meaning Torron cannot work for a living and now faces the prospect of losing his home.

The NHS is Britain’s “public option” plan. But you can be sure that the political elites in Britain don’t wait a moment for treatment, just like you can be sure that Obama’s children go to the best private schools. He leaves the failing public schools for your children.

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Canada cuts deal with US hospitals to reduce waiting times

UPDATE: Welcome, visitors from Blazing Cat Fur!

Story from the Detroit Free Press. (H/T Health Care BS via ECM)

Excerpt:

Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.

Agreements between Detroit hospitals and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for heart, imaging tests, bariatric and other services provide access to some services not immediately available in the province, said ministry spokesman David Jensen.

The agreements show how a country with a national care system — a proposal not part of the health care changes under discussion in Congress — copes with demand for care with U.S. partnerships, rather than building new facilities.

I am not so sure that we should be adopting single-payer health care. Who can we cut a deal with to reduce our waiting list delays?

John Stossel explains how the profit-motive drives innovation in health care

Video from Legal Insurrection. (H/T ECM)

When you take away the motivation of making money, you remove the incentive for people to risk their own capital to try to develop new cures and treatments.