THIS is the undeniable inevitability of the Socialist delusion of Single Payer.
http://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/05/great-moments-single-payer-britain-cancels-50000-surgeries/
Consider this another data point that will largely get ignored when Democrats and the media start beating the drum again on "Medicare for All" in the 2018 midterms. The UK's vaunted single-payer system has collapsed into "third world" conditions, thanks to a lack of resources that has ambulances unable to pick up patients, who would find difficulty in getting an empty bed at a hospital. The order came down this week from on high to cancel as many as 50,000 scheduled surgeries over the next several weeks until the National Health Service can figure out how to climb out of the hole (via Guy Benson):
Every hospital in the country has been ordered to cancel all non-urgent surgery until at least February in an unprecedented step by NHS officials.
The instructions on Tuesday night - which will see result in around 50,000 operations being axed - followed claims by senior doctors that patients were being treated in "third world" conditions, as hospital chief executives warned of the worst winter crisis for three decades.
Hospitals are reporting growing chaos, with a spike in winter flu leaving frail patients facing 12-hour waits, and some units running out of corridor space.
It's not just the hospitals, either. The NHS will close down outpatient clinics as well, leaving Britons with very few options for healthcare at the beginning of 2018:
Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS medical director, on Tuesday ordered NHS trusts to stop taking all but the most urgent cases, closing outpatients clinics for weeks as well as cancelling around 50,000 planned operations.
Believe it or not, UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt considers this an improvement over last year's performance. At least this time people got advance notice of the closures: ...
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