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Topic: Shocking state of the NHS:
Half a million patients forced
to wait 30 minutes on trolleys
before admission to A&E |
Shocking state of the NHS:
Half a million patients forced
to wait 30 minutes on trolleys
before admission to A&E
Daily Mail [UK], by Jo MacFarlane & Brendan Carlin
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 11/17/2012 10:25:41 PM
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| The number of seriously ill patients forced to wait more than half an hour on trolleys and in ambulances before being admitted to accident and emergency has rocketed by up to 300 percent in just 12 months. Figures uncovered in an investigation by The Mail on Sunday reveal mounting delays for 999 patients at hospitals across the country as casualty units struggle to cope with Government cuts and the closure and downgrading of other A&E wards. Nearly half a million patients brought into casualty by ambulance last year were left for half an hour or more in vehicles or in
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Comments:
A&E - Accident & Emergency
Since the election, this type of article has now escalated from frightening to terrifying.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 11/17/2012 11:47:45 PM (No. 9021367)
Wait until 2014. In the US, that 1/2 million is going to turn into 15,000,000 waiting outside emergency rooms.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
novakid, 11/17/2012 11:47:50 PM (No. 9021368)
Coming soon to the US, thanks to 0bamacare.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 11/18/2012 12:10:19 AM (No. 9021387)
Seems like a preview into our future healthcare.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
redink, 11/18/2012 12:10:45 AM (No. 9021388)
This is already here. When I lived in CA, I was left on a gurney in the emergency room for four hours with pancreatitis before anyone gave me a pain killer and sent me home with a diagnoses of gall stones. Went back six hours later with a swollen liver and they still kept me waiting until my screams brought some attention. This ER was notoriously understaffed and overwhelmed with illegals. I can´t imagine what it´s like now.
I´m grateful I´m in a state with high quality health care and hospitals, but unfortunately, I now know what´s coming down the pike.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
leonardo, 11/18/2012 1:06:08 AM (No. 9021415)
America has allowed a legion of fools, brainwashed by a cult of personality and bought by "free stuff", to deliver us to a health care debacle. If your state opts out of participation in ObamaCare, support those brave patriots who oppose the King.
"When injustice becomes LAW,
resistance becomes DUTY."
~ Thomas Jefferson
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 11/18/2012 2:57:26 AM (No. 9021451)
It is indeed already here. Hospitals simply can´t hire enough bureaucrats and nursing "administrative" personnel. No money, however, when I beg to hire more skilled nursing staff in our busy ER.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
billa, 11/18/2012 3:49:31 AM (No. 9021462)
Do not blame Obamacare...blame the people who voted for Obama, the SCOTUS and all the congressidiots that voted for this unconstitutional and illegal piece of "bleep".
It will get much worse than we can imagine in the US because BO and the legislature is allowing a gazillion illegals to enter and remain in the US.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bpl40, 11/18/2012 8:04:37 AM (No. 9021616)
A family member recently spent over two and half hours on a trolley in the corridor at Weill Cornell New York after an auto accident. She was lucky.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bumbleshorts, 11/18/2012 10:59:24 AM (No. 9021933)
This is the British template of national health service, meaning that medical service is free at point of service and general taxation pays all medical services.
This is not what obamacare is.
The German national health service is where insurance is manditory and those not able to pay for insurance are given insurance by the government which is paid for by general taxation.
This is not what obamacare is.
Obamacare is making insurance manditory and those who can´t afford insurance are given insurance and the bill is added to your insurance premiums. This is the worst of all options and you can be assured that medicare and medicaid cost will slowly be added to your premiums. It´s outright thievery. Don´t get sick.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
nonsense, 11/18/2012 1:52:10 PM (No. 9022264)
Hard to imagine that Obamascare will be as bad as this. Realistically it will probably be much worse.
Thank all the Obama voters for our dark future.
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