Monday, February 20, 2012

David Cameron Sees the NHS Handwriting on the Wall

The UK's nationalized healthcare system chickens have come home to roost:


(excerpted from)
Why the UK Is Ditching Socialized Medicine
Posted by Bio ↓ on Feb 20th, 2012
"There is more than a little irony attached to the Obama administration’s determination to pursue socialist, EU-style “solutions” to America’s problems, even as the European Union is coming to grips with the bitter realities such socialism produces. And while Greece and its financial problems receive some media coverage in the United States, there is a much bigger story flying under the mainstream media radar: in Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has introduced a bill seeking to partially privatize the National Health Service (NHS). Why? Because the British government is “hoping to avoid a Greek-style financial meltdown.
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Cameron
refuses to back down, insisting there’s too much bureaucracy in the system, and that it interferes with patient care. “If we were as good at treating cancer as the average European country, we would save 5,000 lives a year,” he contended. He further noted that reform will create “a fair system that stops the private sector from picking off contracts and the public sector from providing an inflexible monopoly.” Yet he insisted that “health care for all, free at the point of use, unrelated to the ability to pay” will remain the animating features of the system..."
READ THE REST HERE:==> Why the UK is Ditching Socialized Medicine

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