This is what we can expect with health care courtesy of Barack HUSSEIN Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm)
ITALY: Need a mammogram? You’ll be able to get plenty done in the meantime — the average wait is 70 days.
GREAT BRITAIN: About 20 percent of patients with treatable colon cancer at the time of discovery are considered incurable by the time treatment is finally available.
CANADA: The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the government must stop restricting the private sector from providing health care when the national system (frequently) fails. Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin wrote “Access to a waiting list is not access to healthcare.”
FRANCE: French workers pay about 19% of earnings in taxes for health insurance and yet still more than 90% purchase complimentary private insurance.
GREECE: Analysts believe Greece needs about 5,000 general practitioners to meet demand. They currently have about 600. The lack of doctors is so bad that it’s common for patients to offer bribes for appointments.
MASSACHUSETTS: “Universal health care will help cure our overcrowded emergency rooms!” the politicians claimed. Wrong. After it was implemented, patient visits actually rose by 7 percent between 2005 and 2007 and costs rose by 18 percent.
Not bad enough for you?
How about this guy who was denied bowel cancer medication in the UK?
Bowel cancer sufferers are to be denied a life-prolonging drug on the NHS which is available to patients across Europe and beyond.
Trials show Avastin can extend life by almost two years.
But the Government’s rationing body, Nice, says it is not cost-effective.
In what has been dubbed ‘passport prescribing’, Britain does not allow routine use of the drug while patients in virtually all other EU countries get the drug paid for.
France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavian nations, as well as Australia and Canada, all meet the cost of treatment.
Last week Nice rejected the use of a liver cancer drug on the NHS.
Around 35,000 Britons develop bowel cancer each year, of which 4,000-5,000 with advanced cancer could benefit from the drug.
Avastin, also known as bevacizumab, costs around £18,000 for a course of ten months’ treatment given as intravenous infusion with chemotherapy.
All the damn Конгрессa wants it so they can keep their fucking “gold option” healthcare.
As it happens I was arguing with some Brits in Canuckistan yesterday about the merits of having car insurance provided by one company which is owned by the provincial government. Here in Canada I pay about £80 a month for car insurance. In Britain where there are thousands of insurance firms for a similar car I paid £300 for a year. One of the clowns I was arguing with adopted the straw man approach by noting that health insurance in the US was open to competition but still expensive. I pointed out that my NHS tax deductions in the UK were equivalent to 11% of my take home pay and I had no say in the level of treatment. Having been in a US hospital once following a motorcycle accident in the 1980′s my experience was far better than when I broke a collar bone in the UK in the 1970′s and had to wait for hours to be seen. Can I just mention in passing. I ******* hate socialists.