{"id":405162,"date":"2010-03-08T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33308"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:28:37","slug":"do-you-really-want-government-run-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/405162","title":{"rendered":"Do you Really Want Government-Run Health Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Doug Bandow<\/p>\n

Great Britain continues to remind us what happens when the government rations care to save money.  Reports the Times<\/em> of London:<\/a><\/p>\n

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DAMNING reports on the state of the National Health Service, suppressed by the government, reveal how patients’ needs have been neglected.<\/p>\n

They diagnose a blind pursuit of political and managerial targets as the root cause of a string of hospital scandals that have cost thousands of lives.<\/p>\n

The harsh verdict on the state of the NHS, after a spending splurge under Labour between 2000 and 2008, raises worrying questions about the future quality of the health service as budgets are squeezed.<\/p>\n

One report, based on the advice of almost 200 top managers and doctors, says hospitals ignored basic hygiene to cram in patients to meet waiting-time targets.<\/p>\n

It says “several interviewees” cited the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells [NHS Trust in Kent where 269 deaths during 2005-6 were caused by infection with Clostridium difficile bacteria].<\/p>\n

“Managers crowded in patients in order to meet waiting-time targets and, in the process, lost sight of the fundamental hygiene requirements for infection prevention,” the report stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is that really what Americans want?  If not, they had better make their views known in Congress before ObamaCare is crammed down their throats.<\/p>\n

Doug Bandow, American Conservative Defense Alliance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Doug Bandow Great Britain continues to remind us what happens when the government rations care to save money.  Reports the Times of London: DAMNING reports on the state of the National Health Service, suppressed by the government, reveal how patients’ needs have been neglected. They diagnose a blind pursuit of political and managerial targets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}