Tag Archives: National Health Service
Elderly Go Blind as NHS Ignores Eye Surgery Rationing Advice
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 26th April 2019The startling title is the headline from an article in the Times of London. Below are the first two paragraphs from the story: Tens of thousands of elderly people are left struggling to see because of an NHS cost-cutting drive that relies on them dying before they can qualify for cataract surgery, senior doctors say….
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Britain’s National Health Service Continues to Struggle
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 24th January 2018The UK’s NHS is experiencing another major problem. Patients ‘dying in hospital corridors’ is the headline of a BBC article describing “intolerable conditions” in the country’s government run hospitals. The system’s current problem is blamed on the flu and, of course, government underfunding. That the taxpayers’ funding of the NHS is at an all time…
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Medical Rationing in the UK
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 29th October 2017A sizable, but likely still a minority, of the population seems to think that the federal government should have sole responsibility for the funding and delivery of medical care in the US – ie, a single payer system. Many, if not, most people make up their minds about the provision of both medical care and…
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Donald Berwick Nominated to Head CMS
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 13th May 2010Dr Donald Berwick has been nominated by President Obama to be director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Dr Berwick as the video below shows has some extreme views. He is guilty of a common error in logic – the exclusion of alternatives. In his view the only alternative to the US medical…
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