SkyNews: "Patients waiting for routine hospital treatment in England hits record high"

[DrLeftover]

It was also revealed total of 387,257 people in England had been waiting more than a year to start hospital treatment at the end of August, up from 377,689 at the end of July.

Patients waiting for routine hospital treatment in England hits record high

Seven million patients were waiting to start treatment at the end of August, with over 380,000 having been on the list for over a year.

news.sky.com

 

[Webster]

Given the state of American medicine, especially with regards to the billions in medical debt people incur every year, we ain't in a position to grip when other countries' health care systems have problems....

 

[passenger]

I have heard the same about Canada's system. Great medical care, if you can wait for it.

 

[Webster]

I have heard the same about Canada's system. Great medical care, if you can wait for it.

No healthcare system is perfect; even our system, which conservative love to flaunt as "superior" to others', has lots of faults to it....

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Wow, whats the goal? To make people wait so long that they kick the bucket so they don't have to provide them with any care in the first place?

 

[Webster]

Wow, whats the goal? To make people wait so long that they kick the bucket so they don't have to provide them with any care in the first place?

To hear the Right talk about it, that's what they think it is.