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I feel for the family.
This child is almost certainly doomed.
The British National Health Service has decided that they won't continue to treat her.
That'd be a bummer in and of itself, but they've also decided to forbid anyone else from trying.
Even worse is they appear to have made the decision to stop care based on the costs and likely outcomes and then refused to let others take the case and pay for it themselves.
This is what you get with socialized care.
Well, anything the government decides is theirs.
Once upon a time the cops were just the people paid to enforce the peace. A professional auxiliary to the people with no more power or authority.
Now they hold a monopoly over that power, without even a formal abdication from the people.
Medicine will go the same route.
It is funny how libtards refuse to listen to any accounts of people who are unhappy with the Stalinized/Maoized Medicine in countries they covet like the UK or Canada. Actually it isn't humorous at all. I've heard quite a few Brits and even more Canucks complain about the state of medicine in their countries. In fact, I've known several people (mostly techies) in the Toronto area that paid for a US medical insurance policy out of their own pocket and got all their treatment in the Detroit area. One thing the libtards rarely tell you about is the "you get to keep your Doctor" isn't necessarily true in Canada. You get assigned Doctors. One guy I knew who did the US plan did so because the primary care Dr. he was assigned in Canada was located in the worst part of Toronto. Oh -- and the myth the left propagates of Canada being pristine, clean, crime free and unburdened by poverty or drug addition is entirely untrue. The big cities up there have all the same problems of big cities anywhere. Anyway, he got tired of being in the waiting room with his children in the presence or junkies openly shooting up or smoking crack/meth. You know, because up there Doctors don't really get to refuse patients either. And then there is the part that is less of a secret. Care is clearly rationed. Elective procedures... good luck with that. Non life threatening but needed procedures like knee replacements? Long wait. It's not just people I've known professionally either. And the system makes it as difficult as possible to go around without crossing the border.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom lives in a snowbird community in the Rio Grande Valley in far south Texas. The resort/park she lives in is home to a large number of Canadians (so much so they fly the US flag, Texas flag and the Canadian flag under that) who escape winter to there for several months a year (many are required to be in Canada at least 6 mo + 1 day). Because of that, they almost all have some kind of US healthcare plan. And in fact, a lot of them have most if not all of their planned procedures and treatment done in the US, even though it would be "free" in Canada. Because... and they will pretty much all say this. The QUALITY in the US is just plain better. Things that are "free" are often worth every penny. Of course to be fair, gereatric care is about as good as it gets in the RGV.
Huge quantities of elderly means lots of businesses for Drs. specializing in the kind of care old people need.
Heart, Oncology, Orthopedics are all top notch down there. It is one of the reasons I was happy with my Mom's decision to move there full time after my Dad passed away.
We've all read about some of McThag's experiences with the government run VA medical system. He knows what he speaks of. No reason to believe that if the US gov't tried to force Stalinish/Maoist medicine on all of us it woulnd't end up just as b0rk3d.
The Stalinish/Maoist healthcare system in Canada has ruined it for Doctors too. A lot of them up there have left medicine or moved to the US where pay is better. The government doesn't treat the Doctors much better than the patients. Obviously the British system has the same systematic problems. I'm not saying that our system is perfect... But replacing it with a system modeled after Canada or GB probably won't be either.
And a lot of people also forget that our other neighbor, Mexico also has "Socialized" medicine. Guess where the well to do Mexicans who can afford it go to get their care? Yeah, the side of the border my Mom lives on. Oh... and a lot that just walk over and show up at the ER too... so there's that. But of course I am deplorable for pointing out things like that.
-swj
We need universal healthcare and our system needs to change. The Swiss do universal healthcare right via private insurance. Private insurance companies have to offer a basic coverage plan at the non-profit level. People below a certain income get supplemental aid from the government to help them buy a basic insurance plan. Insurers make their profits by offering supplemental coverage plans. Everybody wins.
ReplyDeleteIt's a solution that would work, but no one is talking about it. -JKing