Brickbat: The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

Young In Jin / Dreamstime.com

In Great Britain, patients are supposed to wait no more than two weeks to see a cancer specialist after being referred by their doctor. But the National Health Service reports more than 100,000 people waited more than two weeks last year, and more than 25,000 had to wait more than 62 days, the official target, to actually start cancer treatment.

Comments

[IceTrey]

"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."

Norman Mailer

[Cynical Asshole]

Yes, but everyone suffers equally. Except of course for high ranking party members in good standing. Some animals are more equal than others.

[Fist of Etiquette]

NHS cancer services are hobbled by chronic shortages of radiologists and clinical oncologists...

The only thing left for the planners to do is start arresting oncologists until they agree to see more patients.

[Rat on a train]

Creative calendar management can fix the problem. Contact the US VA for instructions.

[AlmightyJB]

They need to start picking peoples professions for them based on state need.

[AlmightyJB]

Now they just need to arrest everyone in Congress.

http://hotair.com/archives/201.....taxpayers/

[Rat on a train]

You can arrest them, convict them and jail them. That might not be enough.

[AlmightyJB]

Wow

[Jerryskids]

If patients are supposed to wait no more than 2 weeks but many are waiting longer, I hope they are arresting those scofflaws that are making the NHS look bad. It's free healthcare, folks, why would you wait to jump on that offer?

[Rufus The Monocled]

This is the system, remember kids, retarded progressives want.

Because *compassionate* and *free* and *lowers costs*!

Idiots.

[Matrix]

Coming soon to America...

[Longtobefree]

I am shocked, shocked!

[C. S. P. Schofield]

Everything I need to know about Britain's National Health Service is summed up in the following;

For decades, from WWII to 1995 (when he died) the cartoonist Giles was a British institution. His cartoons were a combination of humor and political commentary, and are well worth looking up. Giles started his career as a hard left-winger, and never really changed his politics. Yet by the mid 1950's he was already mocking the National Health.

By the mid 1950's. They couldn't even hold it together for a whole decade.

[frankania]

Come to Mexico. Not only is it faster (same day service almost always), but MUCH cheaper and competitive forces give good services. Mexico also has IMSS, the govt. health service, which of course, is slow and bureaucratic.

[albo]

So what? Equality in health care misery is a form of equality, after all. Isn't equality what we want?

[ace_m82]

Positive "rights" are either slavery, or theft, or both.