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Just one GP for 500,000 patients:
The true scale of crisis in out-of-
hours NHS cover revealed

Daily Mail [UK], by Sophie Borland

Original Article

Posted By:Attercliffe, 9/29/2012 10:17:37 PM

Out-of-hours GPs are being left to care on their own for up to half a million patients. Cost-cutting NHS chiefs are routinely assigning just one family doctor to districts that stretch over hundreds of square miles. A third of primary care trusts, which manage GP services, have slashed night and weekend spending over the past 12 months. In Cornwall, some nights have seen one GP looking after 535,000 patients. In Mid Essex just one doctor is in charge of 370,000 between 7pm and 8am. And after axing one of its two doctors, North East Essex has the same

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Juts one more in an endless list of what to expect in the future if Obamacare survives.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: spinpilot, 9/29/2012 10:19:23 PM     (No. 8899461)

Welcome zer0care


Reply 2 - Posted by: Lala, 9/29/2012 11:18:43 PM     (No. 8899531)

Most Americans don't have a clue about what's in store. There will be rioting in the streets when thousands are competing against each other yo get in to see a doctor. If you think you may need some specialized treatment or may consider elective surgery, you ought to take care if it now.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: gomerShabazz, 9/29/2012 11:58:28 PM     (No. 8899562)

When you want to be fed and watered like pigs; then don't complain when your slaughter like cattle.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Salt5792, 9/29/2012 11:59:18 PM     (No. 8899564)

I guess the Death Panels decide which of the half million don't get medical attention.


Reply 5 - Posted by: 6079 Smith, W, 9/30/2012 12:01:57 AM     (No. 8899566)

As the good Dr Sowell taught me, when you have price controls, four things inevitably follow: 1) An increase in demand, 2) a decrease in supply, 3) a decrease in quality and 4) Black Markets. Libs can deny that this will happen here with Obamacare, but the laws of economics cannot be denied.


Reply 6 - Posted by: billa, 9/30/2012 1:19:47 AM     (No. 8899601)

One does not need to guess. The kind of health care the US will receive will be far worse than Canada, UK, and Europe combined. Each individual country is far less populated and more homogenous than the US. With the 50% + entitlement recipients, and a gazillion illegals, the US will have to increase taxes by a 100% to finance government run(DMV) healthcare.

Since Obamacare came on the scene in 2007, our private health insurance has increased by 68%. And once it is completely in place, taxpayers can anticipate at least $13,000 in taxes per year to cover every one, even if you are privately insured.


Reply 7 - Posted by: snakeoil, 9/30/2012 2:01:14 AM     (No. 8899622)

I had one GP for 15 years. He wrote all of his patients a letter around a year ago telling us that he wanted to find another way to make a living. I'm now on my third doctor. At least she speaks English.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: killerbee, 9/30/2012 2:18:12 AM     (No. 8899629)

#6: Obama wasn't even president until 2009. Not that Obamacare couldn't have raised your premiums that high already, but it wasn't around in 2007.

I have in-laws who are very pro-Obama and, for reasons I can't even pretend to comprehend, that makes people completely uninterested in learning the details of Obamacare. They are the exact people who will have their care limited. They are retirees with one of them needing a lot of doctor's visits and meds. Has a stay in the hospital at least once a year. They have a stellar insurance policy from his old job and, I guess, they think that won't change. Sorry, but it will change drastically and they'll be SOL.

And then what? Do you say "I told you so" when they tell her she can't get her heart meds even though her pulse is twice too fast? When they don't bother to find out why something's wrong, they just give her a pill to keep her calm?

Makes me want to kick something.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Spidey, 9/30/2012 3:21:59 AM     (No. 8899660)

Despite stories like this,if the brits wanted to privatize healthcare the country would go bonkers. People accept failure as long as it's free.

There's people in housing here where they watch cockroaches ride around on rat's backs and having nothing to complain about because at least they don't have to pay rent.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Trigger2, 9/30/2012 5:46:12 AM     (No. 8899721)

The Death Bill put in limits to the cost of health insurance before penalties kick in. That way, the demonrats were able to increase insurance rates astronomically and everyone (except the elites in congress, muslims, & other favored groups) will get soaked with penalties.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Attercliffe, 9/30/2012 11:43:20 AM     (No. 8900203)

#9, Britons have been brainwashed to think that Americans die all over the place becasue they don't have health insurance. British friends and relatives are incredulous when I tell them it's not true. Most Britons, unless they've been to the US, don't know that current American health care is nothing like the NHS.

My father visited in the mid-seventies and had to see a doctor while he was here (to administer his monthly B-12 shot). We took him to a state hospital clinic where he didn't have to wait very long and enjoyed a cheerful, comfortable waiting room (with current nonmedical magazines!), was given excellent care and respect, and was charged $5 (sliding scale). He never stopped talking about that clinic visit.



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