This is one of those “unintended consequences” of socialized medicine.
Times Online: [Jenny] Whitehead, 64, a former museum assistant from Yorkshire who works as a volunteer at a hospice, went to her GP in December for back pain. Because of her breast cancer history, she was immediately offered an MRI scan to check the disease had not returned. It revealed a cyst on her spine, pressing against her sciatic nerve. Her GP referred her to a consultant at Airedale NHS hospital.
She was told the next available NHS appointment was in May, so she accepted the offer of a private slot to see him the following week.
“My husband and I are retired and don’t have a lot of money, but I am in intense pain and couldn’t face the thought of waiting months just for an initial consultation,” she said.
The specialist promised to add her to his NHS waiting list for surgery. After two months, however, hospital managers told her she had been barred from the waiting list because she had seen the surgeon privately. Now her only alternative to paying £10,000 privately is to go back to her GP, seek another referral to the same specialist, this time on the NHS, and face another 18-week wait.
“We will scratch together the money if we absolutely have to, but I feel it’s incredibly unfair,” said Whitehead. “I’ve paid full National Insurance contributions all my working life and feel I should get this operation on the NHS.”
No “thank you” for saving the NHS the cost of the consultation. Instead, the woman gets punished for it.
Via memeorandum
http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=11129
From Churchill to No Will
Elections in the United States are months away, but in England, they’re going to be voting next month. And today they had a debate between the leaders of the parties. This was the first televised national debate between party leaders in Britain. In England, the equivalent of the Democrats is the Labour Party, headed by Gordon Brown, who is the current prime minister. And the equivalent of the Republicans is the Conservative Party, headed by David Cameron.
Now just a few months ago, the conservative party was up 20 percent in the polls over Gordon Brown and his socialist Labour Party. Today, the polls show that they lead by only a couple of percentage points. How did this happen? How did Gordon Brown – who was discredited by scandal after scandal, by his far-left politics, and by his banning of Michael Savage from the U.K. – manage to draw even in the polls with the conservatives? Because conservative leader David Cameron, like his Republican counterparts in the United States, is moving as fast as he can to the left. He’s taken a page out of Obama’s playbook and promised Britons “Change [they] Can Believe In.” he fully supports Britain’s socialist national health-care system. And worst of all, the conservatives have hired Anita Dunn, Obama’s former communications director, the woman who claimed that one of her heroes was Chinese Communist leader Chairman Mao.
British voters can see that the British Conservative Party, just like the Republican party, has no will to be really conservative. They’ve have gone from Churchill to no will in one generation. And so the few real conservatives left in England are opting not to support the party. It’s exactly what’s happening in the United States. The Republicans are backing off their promises to repeal Obamacare, Republicans are saying Hillary Clinton would be a good Supreme Court nominee, Republicans are saying Nancy Pelosi is a nice lady. The weakness and liberality from so-called right-wing parties on both sides of the Atlantic is stunning. And nothing will change for the better here or in England until conservatives have real conservative leadership.
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