A tear shed for nationalized medicine.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1235921/Midwives-meltdown-A-NHS-worker-reveals-understaffed-maternity-wards-sinking-chaos.html

Despite the hype, the end product is always the same. In the end, every government program runs into the brick wall of the budget crisis.

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crocodile tears on your part methinks .

This story suits your point of view ( and I have to admit it is an interesting article ) , but as we both know we can look through many threads upon this forum to support and pillory both privately funded and government funded healthcare . Neither is a bottomless pit and both place rstrictions upon how resources are allocated .

So thanks for the link . Having spent the first 30 + years of my life being cared for by the NHS and the last 20 + years of my life being cared for by Privatised care I can honestly say I would much rather be cared for by a NHS type system because I had the same access to care , greater freedom re employment ( I knew I would always have health care , so that was not a factor in life making me either stay in a job I hated or not taking a job I would love , because of lack of this benefit ) , and comfort in the knowledge that getting healthcare would not bankrupt me ( this type of thought has only occurred to me since I came to the USA, never once crossed my mind in the UK) etc..

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crocodile tears on your part methinks .

This story suits your point of view ( and I have to admit it is an interesting article )

That's kind of the point. There are a dozen threads about individual cases used to prove how horrible the health care system is. I was trying to show how silly that is.

This article is tragic, but it's an isolated incident with a sample of one. It's as poor a reflection on the NHS system as the "health care horror story" threads are of American health care.

P.S. I've never in my life feared that healthcare might bankrupt me. It wouldn't even make the top 5 list of things out of my control that are most likely to screw over my finances.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1235921/Midwives-meltdown-A-NHS-worker-reveals-understaffed-maternity-wards-sinking-chaos.html

Despite the hype, the end product is always the same. In the end, every government program runs into the brick wall of the budget crisis.

of course, that is except for the military and the two ongoing wars. oh, and prisons.

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