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« on: October 28, 2007, 09:42:34 AM »

Brits in record numbers go abroad for health care
Long waiting lists, substandard treatment, increasing threat from hospital superbugs


Filmmaker Michael Moore praises the UK's National Health Service as a model for the U.S. in his latest film, "Sicko," but record numbers of British citizens have apparently not seen the movie and are going abroad and paying out of their own pockets to obtain better health care.

More than 70,000 Britons will have treatment abroad this year, the London Sunday Telegraph reported, a number that is forecast to rise to 200,000 by 2010.

In the first survey of its kind in the UK, Britons said long waits for treatment by the NHS and fears of the growing hospital-infection crisis were the primary reasons they chose to seek medical care elsewhere.

India is the most popular destination for surgery, followed by Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, Poland and Spain. According to the survey conducted by Treatment Abroad, "health tourists" from the UK travel to 48 countries.

The NHS is coming under increased criticism for its failure to provide health care. Cases of the superbug Clostridium difficile have increased 500 percent in the last 10 years and are expected to climb above the 55,000 cases reported in 2006.

Long waiting periods for surgery have imposed a de facto rationing system on medical treatment. Last month, a British man was told he did not qualify for a simple surgery because he was a smoker.

Costs for the NHS have risen due to increased bureaucracy that prevents nurses from seeing patients and increased compensation to general practitioners that have seen their earnings rise over 50 percent in the last three years.

Health tourists are courted on the Internet by foreign doctors and hospitals that offer consultations online or with agents in the UK. Cost of a heart-bypass operation in India, including the flight and hotel, are less than half what the same would cost at a private British hospital. The shortage of dentists in Britain is being met by dentists in Hungary.

"The confidence that the public has in NHS hospitals has been shattered by the growth of hospital infections and this government's failure to make a real commitment to tackling it," said Katherine Murphy, of the Patients' Association. "People are simply frightened of going to NHS hospitals, so I am not surprised the numbers going abroad are increasing so rapidly. My fear is that most people can't afford to have private treatment – whether in this country or abroad."

In the survey, almost all of those who obtained treatment abroad said they would do it again.

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« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2007, 09:43:41 AM »

This is the kind of health care program the democrats want to give us.  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
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« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2007, 11:05:58 AM »

Quote: growing hospital-infection crisis

Having worked in hospitals for many years I know that Staph is the most feared and contracted during a stay in the hospital.  I think we can look forward to seeing more of it and others as the end times draw nearer and especially if the new health care that the Dems want succeeds if for no other reason than more traffic, faster turn arounds causing less than thorough sterilization procedures between patients.  Just a guess and a theory but I could see it happening.  And who knows that it won't happen anyway, due to the capitalist attitude of the country, doctors included.  It's not about health care and the Hippocratic oath any more, it's about the dollar and has been for a long time.  Long gone are the days that doctors really cared and made house calls.  Patients are just a blur of faces and diseases/or whatever you've come to see them for.  They don't know your name, except that it's on the chart in front of them, so how can you expect them to really care.  Just makes sense to me anyway.
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« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2007, 11:23:55 AM »

There is the key word "care". Whether it is a capitalist attitude or one of socialism, without caring for others there is no care. When money is placed ahead of love for others care is lost. With socialism the money factor is taken away, there are still no incentives to do a good job when there is no love for others. As you said there will also be more crowded facilities because some people that have taken care of situations at home right now will start using medical facilities more and there will be fewer medical facilities due to the lack of incentives of getting into such a difficult and sometimes dangerous field. And the quality of services drops from there.

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« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2007, 11:34:18 AM »

Exactly Pastor Roger.
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