Soaring numbers flying abroad for medical care as NHS lists lengthen

[aociswundumho]

Soaring numbers flying abroad for medical care as NHS lists lengthen

The number of patients leaving Britain and flying overseas for medical treatment has trebled as NHS waiting times reach a record high, a Telegraph investigation has revealed.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Here we have the NHS, a classic example of public ownership/control of the means of production regarding medical services:

The number of patients leaving Britain and flying overseas for medical treatment has trebled as NHS waiting times reach a record high, a Telegraph investigation has revealed.
Government data shows the number of people going abroad for healthcare has increased from 48,000 in 2014 to almost 144,000 last year as the health service struggles to cope with demand.
Experts said lengthening waiting times for surgery - particularly hip, knee and cataract operations - and cutbacks to fertility treatment - were fuelling the rise.
NHS waiting times are now the longest they have been for almost a decade, with more than 409,000 people waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment - a rise from 34,000 in 2014.

Think of a hospital being run like the DMV, but instead of standing in line for hours, you're waiting in pain for months. This is socialism in a nutshell.

Patient groups said the figures reflected badly on the NHS.
Joyce Robins, from Patient Concern, said: “It is a desperately sad state of affairs that people who have paid into the NHS all their lives are finding it is not there for them when they need it.
“These are essential operations, but thousands of people are being left in pain and misery - for every person who goes abroad there will be many more left suffering,” she said.

What's a little pain and misery when it's for the common good?

But health experts said the sharp rise reflected growing numbers of British patients going abroad for medical operations, amid lengthening waits and creeping rationing.

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Scarlett McNally, from the Royal College of Surgeons said: “With over 400,000 NHS patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for planned treatment, and an increasing number of clinical commissioning groups restricting access to surgery for certain groups of patients, it is not surprising that some people will look elsewhere for healthcare.
“It is hard to say whether current strains on the NHS explain the rise in patients travelling abroad for surgery. We are aware, however, that more patients are using private healthcare, at least in part because of longer waiting times.”

It's almost as if government ruins everything it touches.

 

[Court Jester]

Single payer socialized medicine for all means crap healthcare for all.

 

[Lovebug]

Soaring numbers flying abroad for medical care as NHS lists lengthen

The number of patients leaving Britain and flying overseas for medical treatment has trebled as NHS waiting times reach a record high, a Telegraph investigation has revealed.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Here we have the NHS, a classic example of public ownership/control of the means of production regarding medical services:



Think of a hospital being run like the DMV, but instead of standing in line for hours, you're waiting in pain for months. This is socialism in a nutshell.



What's a little pain and misery when it's for the common good?



It's almost as if government ruins everything it touches.

Lots of people going to Mexico because our care is unaffordable.

 

[swing_voter]

A lot of countries with free health care, brag about it to Americans.

But when alone, they complain about their health care.

 

[Drawdown]

Lots of people going to Mexico because our care is unaffordable.

Aren't they banned from the US anyway?

Anyway, medical tourism is a growing industry globally. Reasons vary. It may be that it is cheaper, may be it is quicker, may be that it is legal elsewhere, and may be that there are no local specialists. Seems to me that some old celebrity died in their hotel the day after having a dental procedure in previous day. That is usually a sign that they were getting those 4 mount false teeth as not that many places do them.

 

[aociswundumho]

Lots of people going to Mexico because our care is unaffordable.

Not just Mexico. Americans go to many different countries to get away from price-gouging US hospitals.

because our care is unaffordable.

Yes, but it doesn't have to be. Prior to the heavy government intervention into the market, healthcare in the US was cheap and affordable.

 

[Court Jester]

Lots of people going to Mexico because our care is unaffordable.

Anyone who would go to that 3rd world s-hole for medical care has to be mentally retarded. I wouldn't travel to that awful place to for any reason, much less something life and death. Only a fool would go to Mexico. I wouldn't go there for cheap vacation deals or $1 tacos either. That place is a mess.

 

[AmNat]

Soaring numbers flying abroad for medical care as NHS lists lengthen

The number of patients leaving Britain and flying overseas for medical treatment has trebled as NHS waiting times reach a record high, a Telegraph investigation has revealed.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Here we have the NHS, a classic example of public ownership/control of the means of production regarding medical services:



Think of a hospital being run like the DMV, but instead of standing in line for hours, you're waiting in pain for months. This is socialism in a nutshell.



What's a little pain and misery when it's for the common good?



It's almost as if government ruins everything it touches.

The lucky ones travel abroad. There've been multiple cases of Britons being prohibited from leaving the country for treatment, "for their own good".

 

[Excon]

Except for the envious, does anybody really have a problem with this?