24 Replies to “Government Healthcare”

  2. “The trust’s apology comes the same week as a coroner called for changes when a patient died after being denied a CT scan at Tunbridge Wells Hospital – because it was the weekend.”
    In a just world the employees responsible would face criminal charges. But then this is the UK’s national treasure, celebrated in the Olympics.
    Carry on and keep a stiff upper lip.

  3. really no water for 5 days, if i/we did that to a person we would be alllll over the news as abusive and in jail. Government employee can kill anyone in any manner of horrific ways and a sorry or during the performance of their duties is a magic eraser. Hopefully hell is full of government employees like this…

  4. Which leads to more questions.
    Like has this particular employee killed a lot of other patients?
    How does this particular employee ensure that “bowel movement accidents” do not happen?

  5. Government is not a charity; it is an enforcer of the law.
    The trouble is that this is the “sheriff,” as in “Who is going to arrest the sheriff?”
    With hospitals being government entities and doctors and nurses being government employees AND government being the enforcer of the law, it becomes an impossible situation.
    It used to be that private entities and individuals were regulated by the government to ensure against abuse.
    With government now in control, there is no mechanism to ensure against abuse. People are thus at the mercy of typical human beings.

  6. Take any business, enterprise, occupation or other endeavour that is successful and if you intend to ruin it as quickly as possible, just hand it over to the government (any government) bureaucrats and other useless wonks. They’ll do the dirty work in no time flat.
    BCer

  7. Large government equates with small citizenry. Majority acceptance of essential services perceived as being at someone else’s expense trumps outrage over shoddy delivery until it affects you personally. All hospitals kill people and the NHS costs less per capita than most other nations socialist equivalents. It’s the ideal system for a bovine electorate.

  8. so who says doctor assisted suicide hasn’t reach jolly ol’ England?
    not suicide you say? perhaps. however, this WILL be the result of ANY movement towards said ‘assisted’ suicide. just. like. happened. in. Holland.
    and do tell, where oh where are the criminal charges? negligence perhaps?
    and whut in blazes does Tommy Douglas have to do with this? my understanding is he changed his mind many decades ago about euthanasia.

  9. “Carry on and keep a stiff upper lip.”
    Is that with or without rigor mortis?
    Obviously, its cheaper to KILL the patient, than treat them properly.
    The more stiffs they create the less spent on actually attempting to HEAL someone. Helps keep the lawns green too as less fertilizer is required.
    The other tactic is; if they don’t diagnose, then there is no malady either.
    But hey you know it’s a CARING profession…your mileage to the cemetery may vary!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  13. Not only was she olllllld and receiving costly medical care, but old people tend to keep the thermostat much higher than younger citizens of the State. So it was high time that someone put the old bird out of OUR misery. She was an insult to Gaia … and all the taxpayers.

  15. I knew a healthy old guy and I won’t name the Alberta hospital for fear of being sued. It was maybe 10-15 years ago. He was put in hospital for some concern but he was not in any crisis. A day or 2 later he slipped and broke his hip. A couple days later a nurse wheeled him out into the bright sun and forgot about him until he was thoroughly burnt. A couple days later he was dead.
    There has to be consequences for actions.

  16. Well, she WAS 86.
    Old and hospitalized,or in a care home? Visited very seldom by family, all your friends dead? Nothing to live for and feeling depressed? Are you costing the system a lot of money?
    Well,you simply MUST talk to one of our counselors about doing the right thing. No, absolutely painless, you won’t feel a thing,and you’ll wake up in a far better place.
    Now, to think up a catchy euphemism for it all…………….
    Perhaps we can hold a contest. The winner gets dinner with the Prime Minister.

  18. Just got back from a medical mission in a third world country where the hospital was run by the Franciscan monks. Needless to say, they spent nothing on themselves. The equipment was state of the art or close to it. And the care they provided to the most needy was absolutely impeccable. We lost something when the care of the sick passed from the hands of the religious orders to the government trade unions.

  20. My memories of my native country England reach back to the early 1940’s. I have no documentation or proof, but I do know what was freely said at the time.
    The term was “withdrawal of fluids”. I found a relative living in Alberta. She told me her grandmother survived a London bombing that demolished the house next door. She developed Parkinson’s disease.
    In 1943 her daughter went to visit her. She said please take my things home, because they have moved me to the bed nearest the exit. The daughter said “don’t be so silly Mum”.
    The woman did indeed die shortly after that.
    It was said that some elderly Londoners in the 1930’s fought against being taken to the “orspital”. They feared something would happen to them
    Not to denigrate a whole system here…… but thought I would relate this.

  21. Amen to that!
    The hospital in my home town was run by Catholic nuns/nurses,the care was excellent.

  22. I’ve had dental work done at the university student clinic. Considering how they go about learning their craft, I shudder to think of how physicians might be trained.
    Just how dumb does one have to be to flunk out?

  23. In our countries this will eventually grind to a halt. There has been a resurgence in the joys of a job well done as a vigilante. Remember the American Declaration of Independence? Lots of words about illegal things being done to them to which there was no redress? Men and women today will just take it for a finite bit of time. That time is almost over. Ready to beat your plowshares into something more useful?

  24. This is the wave of the future, albeit more crudely than our masters want it to be. They may say “compassion”, but they mean “cost-savings”. Forget the contributions the elderly and ill can make to our society even as we walk with them on their last journey. It’s all about money – moving it from care of those who have been “givers” all their lives but now have needs to those who are “takers” but will vote the right way.

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