From the Independent (UK):
Poor standards of care at an accident and emergency unit in one of the country's flagship hospitals may have contributed to the unnecessary deaths of over 400 patients, an official NHS investigation has concluded. Dirty equipment and an absence of leadership contributed to a death rate almost ...
"Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors have warned."
Read "Sentenced to death on the NHS" in the Telegraph.
(via FIRM)
Just in case you needed a reminder that having coverage does not mean getting the care you need, here's one from the Daily Telegraph:
The Government’s drug rationing watchdog says “therapeutic” injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering ...
He would, suggests Charles Hooper at Forbes.com. Some selections:
Say a biotech company is developing a new drug for breast cancer. My consulting firm, Objective Insights, looks at the financial value of the project. If the expected value--probability-adjusted value--of the project is negative, we suggest discontinuing development. Often, millions of dollars ...
On buying health insurance directly from an insurance company instead of through one's employer, ABC News Medical Editor Dr. Tim Johnson states:
The idea that individuals are going to have enough knowledge and enough savvy and enough insight and, frankly, enough guts to make choices all by themselves is pretty much ...
Paul Hsieh's post about this disturbing facet of governement-controlled medicine won this week's Anti-Socialized Medicine Blog Post Contest by Right-Wing News and the David All Group. Congratulations, Paul! Paula Hall had the runner-up post: Pay Doctors, Don't Enslave Them, which also worth reading. Also, thank you to RWN for linking to ...
Continued from Part 2.
Topics:
Is "free" medical care in France, Germany, Britain, and Canada is really wonderful?
When products are free at the point of service, demand goes through the roof. People pay by waiting.
England: 18 week wait for hospital care, people lined about around the block for dental care, or pull teeth themselves. "Don't wash the sheets, just ...
Socialist politician Aneurin Bevan, father of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), has stated that “everyone should be treated alike in the matter of medical care" and that "the essence of a satisfactory health service is that rich and poor are treated alike, that poverty is not a disability and wealth ...
From the Daily Mail :
How the NHS is letting my father die - by a top hospital consultant
by Sarah Anderson
Eye specialist Sarah Anderson works at York Hospital . Her father Ian has been refused Sutent, a new cancer drug, which could provide the only real chance of prolonging his life. ...
Last week the Globe and Mail reported that:
More than 100 Canadian women with high-risk pregnancies have been sent to United States hospitals over the past year – in what a doctors' group attributes to the lack of a national birthing plan.
The problem has peaked, with British Columbia and Ontario each ...
