Jul 19, 2009

9 month wait for arthritis treatment in UK

This is just one example of socialized medicine at work and a prelude to ObamaCare in America.

The report at the first link below says that thousands of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers in Britain face a lifetime of agony because they are not being treated quickly enough.

Guidelines state that patients should receive treatment within three months of the first symptoms appearing.

But the average wait is nine months - and GPs are not trained well enough to know what help to offer.

It will be no different in the United States with ObamaCare.

We will have fewer young people entering medical school after ObamaCare has been fully implemented. Few will be inclined to incur several hundred thousand dollars in student loans only to have the federal government look over their shoulder telling them what they can and can’t do for ailing patients.

The GPs (general medical practitioners) are not trained well enough to know what help to offer - mentioned in the DailyMail article above - will be commonplace.

If we follow the British socialized medicine example, there will be a few expertly staffed private medical clinics but only the rich will be able to afford them.

It’s not only arthritis sufferers who wait for months for treatment in the UK.

Cancer survival rates in Britain are among the lowest (worst) in Europe because of delayed medical care and the general inefficiency of NHS (National Health Services) as reported at the second link below.

Link here and here.