|
|
| |
Topic: Shocking state of the NHS: Half a million patients forced to wait 30 minutes on trolleys before admission to A&E |
Shocking state of the NHS: Half a million patients forced to wait 30 minutes on trolleys before admission to A&E
Daily Mail [UK], by Jo MacFarlane & Brendan Carlin
|
|
Original Article
|
|
Posted By:Attercliffe, 11/17/2012 10:25:41 PM
|
| The number of seriously ill patients forced to wait more than half an hour on trolleys and in ambulances before being admitted to accident and emergency has rocketed by up to 300 percent in just 12 months. Figures uncovered in an investigation by The Mail on Sunday reveal mounting delays for 999 patients at hospitals across the country as casualty units struggle to cope with Government cuts and the closure and downgrading of other A&E wards. Nearly half a million patients brought into casualty by ambulance last year were left for half an hour or more in vehicles or in
|
Comments: A&E - Accident & Emergency
Since the election, this type of article has now escalated from frightening to terrifying.
|
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 11/17/2012 11:47:45 PM (No. 9021367)
Wait until 2014. In the US, that 1/2 million is going to turn into 15,000,000 waiting outside emergency rooms.
|
Reply 2 - Posted by:
novakid, 11/17/2012 11:47:50 PM (No. 9021368)
Coming soon to the US, thanks to 0bamacare.
|
| |
|
Reply 3 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 11/18/2012 12:10:19 AM (No. 9021387)
Seems like a preview into our future healthcare.
|
Reply 4 - Posted by:
redink, 11/18/2012 12:10:45 AM (No. 9021388)
This is already here. When I lived in CA, I was left on a gurney in the emergency room for four hours with pancreatitis before anyone gave me a pain killer and sent me home with a diagnoses of gall stones. Went back six hours later with a swollen liver and they still kept me waiting until my screams brought some attention. This ER was notoriously understaffed and overwhelmed with illegals. I can´t imagine what it´s like now. I´m grateful I´m in a state with high quality health care and hospitals, but unfortunately, I now know what´s coming down the pike.
|
Reply 5 - Posted by:
leonardo, 11/18/2012 1:06:08 AM (No. 9021415)
America has allowed a legion of fools, brainwashed by a cult of personality and bought by "free stuff", to deliver us to a health care debacle. If your state opts out of participation in ObamaCare, support those brave patriots who oppose the King. "When injustice becomes LAW, resistance becomes DUTY." ~ Thomas Jefferson
|
Reply 6 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 11/18/2012 2:57:26 AM (No. 9021451)
It is indeed already here. Hospitals simply can´t hire enough bureaucrats and nursing "administrative" personnel. No money, however, when I beg to hire more skilled nursing staff in our busy ER.
|
Reply 7 - Posted by:
billa, 11/18/2012 3:49:31 AM (No. 9021462)
Do not blame Obamacare...blame the people who voted for Obama, the SCOTUS and all the congressidiots that voted for this unconstitutional and illegal piece of "bleep".
It will get much worse than we can imagine in the US because BO and the legislature is allowing a gazillion illegals to enter and remain in the US.
|
| |
|
Reply 8 - Posted by:
bpl40, 11/18/2012 8:04:37 AM (No. 9021616)
A family member recently spent over two and half hours on a trolley in the corridor at Weill Cornell New York after an auto accident. She was lucky.
|
Reply 9 - Posted by:
bumbleshorts, 11/18/2012 10:59:24 AM (No. 9021933)
This is the British template of national health service, meaning that medical service is free at point of service and general taxation pays all medical services.
This is not what obamacare is.
The German national health service is where insurance is manditory and those not able to pay for insurance are given insurance by the government which is paid for by general taxation.
This is not what obamacare is.
Obamacare is making insurance manditory and those who can´t afford insurance are given insurance and the bill is added to your insurance premiums. This is the worst of all options and you can be assured that medicare and medicaid cost will slowly be added to your premiums. It´s outright thievery. Don´t get sick.
|
Reply 10 - Posted by:
nonsense, 11/18/2012 1:52:10 PM (No. 9022264)
Hard to imagine that Obamascare will be as bad as this. Realistically it will probably be much worse.
Thank all the Obama voters for our dark future.
|
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Attercliffe"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Most Recent Articles posted by "Attercliffe"
|
Woolwich attack: Help For Heroes website crashes as thousands try to donate
|
|
Telegraph [UK], by Ben Farmer
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/23/2013 7:36:53 AM
Post Reply
|
|
The charity said the site had been inundated with traffic after news broke that the victim, believed to be a serving soldier, had been wearing one of its T-shirts. As news of the killing quickly spread on social media, there were calls for people to visit the site to donate, or buy T-shirts or other merchandise as a show of support. The site´s shop quickly crashed and parts were still out of action on Thursday morning. A spokesman said: "Last night with the website, there was clearly a lot of interest." The charity, which raises money to provide better care
|
| |
|
Barack Obama is rapidly losing his halo
|
|
Telegraph [UK], by Peter Foster
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/23/2013 1:35:55 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Is the worm turning against Barack Obama? After four-plus years of being given the benefit of the doubt by the bulk of the US media, the President now suddenly feels more vulnerable. Today both the New York Times and the Washington Post have run prominent and angry editorials and columns slamming the administration for its attempt to criminalise a Fox News reporter James Rosen for working a State Department source to obtain a story. The "Rosen Affair"--as it is now known--is poisoning the well in Washington at an alarming rate for Mr Obama, with an indignant White House press corps
|
Opium addicts of Afghanistan: Number of junkies TRIPLES to 150,000 despite war on drugs
|
|
Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/21/2013 7:41:16 PM
Post Reply
|
|
A heroin addict father smokes the deadly drug contentedly as his two innocent children sit watching him adoringly. The oblivious man is part of a growing epidemic in the war-torn country of Afghanistan, which has seen the number of opium and heroin addicts tripling to 150,000, according to latest United Nations Figures, while 225,000 used the drug in 2012. In a country with a population 35million, there are now more than 1m addicts of one drug or another. It represents a major problem for the country, which produces 90 percent of all opiates in the world. Until recently
|
| |
|
´I never knew people could love an old man so much´: WWII vet, 91, ´saved from daughter´s eviction´ after $138,000 raised online
|
|
Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/21/2013 7:18:36 PM
Post Reply
|
|
A 91-year-old WWII veteran fighting to prevent his daughter from evicting him from his Ohio home has raised more than $138,000 from online donors to buy back his home, easily surpassing his goal. John Potter says he´s ´amazed´ by the more than 5,000 people who have donated toward his original $125,000 goal while telling his granddaughter, Jaclyn Fraley, ´I never knew people could love an old man so much.´ After Mr Potter´s daughter sent him an eviction notice earlier this year, Ms Fraley organized the desperate fundraiser for him in April while sharing with the public his dire situation.
|
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Anthony Weiner announces NYC mayor run
|
|
Politico, by Kevin Robillard
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/22/2013 6:06:40 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose career in public life came to an abrupt end when he sent lewd pictures to a college student on Twitter, jumped back into politics on Wednesday by announcing a bid for mayor of New York City. “Look, I’ve made some big mistakes and I know I’ve let a lot of people down,” the Democrat said in a 2-minute video announcing his bid. “But I’ve also learned some tough lessons. I’m running for mayor because I’ve been fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it for my entire life.
|
A Crack in the IRS Dam
|
|
Power Line, by John Hinderaker
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 10:50:44 PM
Post Reply
|
|
The dam protecting the IRS scandal began to crack today when Lois Lerner, the IRS official who announced, and apologized for, the improper singling out of conservative-leaning organizations by IRS employees under her command, announced through her criminal defense lawyer that she will not testify as scheduled tomorrow before the House Oversight Committee. Rather, she will assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. This marks an enormous milestone in the IRS investigation. It can now be taken as more or less established that crimes were committed by Obama administration employees. Lerner’s lawyer tried to minimize the significance
|
Man questioned in Boston Marathon bombing shot, killed by FBI
|
|
WCBV-TV [Boston], by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: earlybird- 5/22/2013 7:21:44 AM
Post Reply
|
|
One of two men allegedly being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida on Tuesday, (Snip)A friend of Ibragim Todashev said he and Todashev were being investigated as part of the Boston bombings. He said Todashev, 27, knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were MMA fighters. The man claims he and Todashev were interviewed by the FBI for nearly three hours on Tuesday. The friend said he left the interview, and when he came back to the apartment he found that there had been a shooting.
|
Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment
|
|
Los Angeles Times, by Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/21/2013 3:53:35 PM
Post Reply
|
|
WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
|
| |
|
Darrell Issa: Lois Lerner lost her rights
|
|
Politico, by Rachel Bade
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/22/2013 3:34:05 PM
Post Reply
|
|
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said embattled IRS official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights and will be hauled back to appear before his panel again. The California Republican said Lerner’s Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination was voided when she gave an opening statement this morning denying any wrongdoing and professing pride in her government service. “When I asked her her questions from the very beginning, I did so so she could assert her rights prior to any statement,” Issa told POLITICO. “She chose not to do so — so she waived.”
|
Howard Dean: ‘Benghazi is a Laughable Joke’
|
|
National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 11:59:15 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Former Democratic National committee chairman Howard Dean considers the controversy over Benghazi a “joke” and “silly.” “Benghazi is a laughable joke,” Dean proclaimed twice in a discussion with Republican National Committee communications chairman Sean Spicer last week. “With all due respect, governor, when four Americans die serving this country, that’s not a joke, sir,” Spicer responded. “Oh, stop it,” said Dean. The former Democratic presidential candidate also said that there were “no serious questions being asked about Benghazi” and brushed it off as an effort by Republicans to score political points.
|
All of Obama´s Scandals Are Ultimately About Information Control
|
|
National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 9:26:54 PM
Post Reply
|
|
There’s really no reason for the press to suggest that the recent slew of scandals involving the Obama administration — Benghazi, the AP phone-record seizure, the snooping in James Rosen’s e-mail, the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, and so on — are a confusing jumble. There is a very clear thread running through all of the administration’s actions: The U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya, Gregory Hicks, says that he was told not to speak to a member of Congress about Benghazi without a State Department lawyer present, that he received a phone call from Hillary Clinton’s
|
| | |
|
|