The UK Telegraph reported recently (July 2010) that the National Health Service plans sweeping cuts in basic services and other restrictions on services for sick or injured patients.
The plans are designed to save billions in British pounds – all in the health system that is widely held up by American socialist progressives as the model example of socialized medicine in the world.
Targeted for cutbacks are procedures and services such as:
- Hip replacements
- Cataract surgery
- Knee replacements
- Orthodontic procedures
- Terminally ill care (i.e. for cancer patients)
- Nursing home care cutbacks
- Acute hospital bedding for mentally ill patients
- Rationing of funding for obesity surgery
Further, staff reductions at NHS hospitals have caused recent delays in diagnosis and treatment for cancer patients due to staff shortages.
The details of these cuts were discovered by the UK Telegraph, “…buried in obscure appendices to lengthy policy and strategy documents published by the trusts.” The Telegraph reports that most communities affected by these changes are unaware of the new reduction in services.
This parallels recent American “discoveries” of heretofore unknown stipulations in legislation passed in the US in both healthcare and financial regulation (i.e. bills each numbering in the thousands of pages – with many pages allegedly left unread by politicians ultimately responsible for voting on the bills).
Read the whole story about the new British health care cutbacks at this link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7908742/Axe-falls-on-NHS-services.html