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Across the English Channel, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) was once a source of pride for its citizens. Following World War II, it embraced socialized medicine more than any other European nation, fully nationalizing all hospitals and offering “free” healthcare. Today, however, it has reached a state of collapse, as reported in harrowing depth by The Wall Street Journal:
Now the state-funded service is falling apart. People who suffer heart attacks or strokes wait more than 1½ hours on average for an ambulance. Hospitals are so full they are turning patients away. A record 7.1 million people in England are stuck on waiting lists for nonemergency hospital treatment like hip replacements. The NHS on Monday faced the biggest strike in its history, with thousands of paramedics and nurses walking out over pay.
Here in the United States, as illustrated by a new Gallup survey headlined “Americans Sour on U.S. Healthcare Quality,” that same alarming dynamic is beginning to play out:
For the first time in Gallup’s two-decade trend, less than half of Americans are complimentary about the quality of U.S. healthcare, with 48% rating it as “excellent” or “good.” The slight majority now rate healthcare quality as subpar, including 31% saying it is “only fair” and 21% – a new high – calling it “poor.”
The latest excellent/good rating for U.S. healthcare quality is just two percentage points lower than in 2021; however, it is well below the 62% high point twice recorded in the early 2010s. It also trails the average 55% reading since 2001.
What’s notable about that timeline is that the 2010s witnessed the arrival of ObamaCare and the creeping socialization of our healthcare sector. As government assumed a greater role, satisfaction declined.
Now the state-funded service is falling apart. People who suffer heart attacks or strokes wait more than 1½ hours on average for an ambulance. Hospitals are so full they are turning patients away. A record 7.1 million people in England are stuck on waiting lists for nonemergency hospital treatment like hip replacements. The NHS on Monday faced the biggest strike in its history, with thousands of paramedics and nurses walking out over pay.
Here in the United States, as illustrated by a new Gallup survey headlined “Americans Sour on U.S. Healthcare Quality,” that same alarming dynamic is beginning to play out:
For the first time in Gallup’s two-decade trend, less than half of Americans are complimentary about the quality of U.S. healthcare, with 48% rating it as “excellent” or “good.” The slight majority now rate healthcare quality as subpar, including 31% saying it is “only fair” and 21% – a new high – calling it “poor.”
The latest excellent/good rating for U.S. healthcare quality is just two percentage points lower than in 2021; however, it is well below the 62% high point twice recorded in the early 2010s. It also trails the average 55% reading since 2001.
What’s notable about that timeline is that the 2010s witnessed the arrival of ObamaCare and the creeping socialization of our healthcare sector. As government assumed a greater role, satisfaction declined.
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I have complete faith that our government could screw up absolutely anything!
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Cpl Vic Burk
MSgt Dale Johnson Virtually everything our government gets their hand into gets f*cked up.
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The government took a Sex and whiskey house in Nevada for taxes. They operated it until it was clear no one wanted to go to such a place when it has the government as manager.
Which goes to show, the Government owned business went bankrupt .
That's right,... the Government couldn't make a profit selling sex and booze.
And remember, Amtrack was also Government owned at one point and racked up a ton of debt...
Which goes to show, the Government owned business went bankrupt .
That's right,... the Government couldn't make a profit selling sex and booze.
And remember, Amtrack was also Government owned at one point and racked up a ton of debt...
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Maj Joan Marine
To date there is not one single govt program that is efficient and get the "job" done.
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Amn Dale Preisach
Maj Joan Marine The Government Bureaucracy is morosely corpulent.
As well as " Staffers " for the elected officials, the staff of the Offices within the congress and Senate, duplicate and triplicate departments of each program the government runs, the Departments having to go through to get a permit for companies interested in drilling for oil and building Roadways etc., and those departments have barely any difference in the forms the companies have to fill out to get approved, those deciding on approval or no, having staff of their own...
If a person was to get rid of superfluous employees, we'd save hundreds of Billions a year. Former DC federally leased/ owned buildings and offices would be sold at a high profit in the Real Estate Markets . An economic boom would happen within DC , public and Private companies and citizens buying space and recently renovated buildings for living quarters , shoppes , artisan work-shoppes , even the business of clean up companies would see a healthy boost in profits consistently, then the remodelers/ architects, ... all creating a surplus in tax monies and the construction/ developers would see profit and steady work for a great while.
As well as " Staffers " for the elected officials, the staff of the Offices within the congress and Senate, duplicate and triplicate departments of each program the government runs, the Departments having to go through to get a permit for companies interested in drilling for oil and building Roadways etc., and those departments have barely any difference in the forms the companies have to fill out to get approved, those deciding on approval or no, having staff of their own...
If a person was to get rid of superfluous employees, we'd save hundreds of Billions a year. Former DC federally leased/ owned buildings and offices would be sold at a high profit in the Real Estate Markets . An economic boom would happen within DC , public and Private companies and citizens buying space and recently renovated buildings for living quarters , shoppes , artisan work-shoppes , even the business of clean up companies would see a healthy boost in profits consistently, then the remodelers/ architects, ... all creating a surplus in tax monies and the construction/ developers would see profit and steady work for a great while.
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I find it's harder than ever to find competence in Medical Providers, I retired when the government stuck their noses into medicine telling everyone how to diagnose and treat based on administrative decisions not what is best for a patient.
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