If His Teleprompterness is going to use ACORN to count us in the census, thereby ensuring a lopsided number of congressional districts, he may as well institute a National Health Care System so as to just eliminate us from the population completely.
The British government apologised Wednesday after a damning official report into a hospital likened by one patient’s relative to “a Third World” health centre.
Stafford Hospital in central England was found to have appalling standards of care, putting patients at risk and leading to some dying, according to a report on Tuesday.
Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected in a three-year period at the National Health Service (NHS) hospital, according to an investigation by the Healthcare Commission watchdog.
“We do apologise to all those people who have suffered from the mistakes that have been made in the Stafford Hospital,” said Prime Minister Gordon Brown, questioned on the matter at his weekly grilling in the House of Commons.
Receptionists with no medical training were left to to assess patients arriving at the hospital’s accident and emergency department, the report found.
Julie Bailey, whose 86-year-old mother Bella died in the hospital in November 2007, said she and other family members slept in a chair at her bedside for eight weeks because they were so concerned about poor care.
“What we saw in those eight weeks will haunt us for the rest of our lives,” said the 47-year-old. “We saw patients drinking out of flower vases they were so thirsty.
“There were patients wandering around the hospital and patients fighting. It was continuous through the night. Patients were screaming out in pain because you just could not get pain relief.
“It was like a Third World country hospital. It was an absolute disgrace.”
When you let the government provide medical care for the lowest common denominator, that is what you’ll get too.
Up to 400 people per year died in one single hospital for the last three years. That is more than one unnecessary death per day.
And there are people demanding this program be started in the US tomorrow!
Since I’m not allowed to think that they’re doing so with malicious intent, I am only left with pure ignorance of the real history of programs such as the one in the UK as their excuse.
And speaking of governmental medical screw-ups, let us come back to our own shores to see how they’ve done it this time….
Free medical screenings for workers at Oak Ridge and other Department of Energy sites have been put on hold while DOE investigates an incident in which personal information could have been compromised and establishes a new protocol for handling such data.
The incident involved a lost disc containing the personal information for thousands of current and former employees at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory. Local officials emphasized today no information involving Oak Ridge workers had been placed at risk.
However, the DOE-sponsored program that provides free medical screenings and CT scans for former Oak Ridge workers was shut down late last week until further notice.
The Atomic Trades and Labor Council, which coordinates parts of programs, has been notifying workers and canceling this week’s appointments.
Stop and think for a moment: What groups of people would you put on a Top 10 list as folks who you’d really not like to see as open to blackmail?
Hmm, yes, I believe that nuclear scientists and nuclear power plant employees would be on my list!
