Death By Numbers - National Health Service And Obamacare Repeal

As the American Congress makes a dog's dinner out of repealing and replacing Obamacare, the lies and hysteria coming from the Democrats and their bought-and-paid-for mainstream media is reaching fever pitch.

Anyone who pays attention to Democratic Party tactics and those of their socialist bedfellows will have predicted that they would conjure up visions of heartless Republicans willfully visiting death and suffering on the heads of the poor solely to give a tax cut to the rich.

In order to counter the growing cynicism of the long suffering American public who are growing increasingly weary of the MSM hysteria and their lack of evidence in Trump/Russia nonsense, actual figures of the death toll are now being touted.

The death toll started off with thousands of deaths per year and increased to tens of thousands as the skeptical public refused to be enthused. This further increased to 24,000, then 36,000 and currently stands at 43,000.

Wealthy Presidential candidate and Socialist In Name Only (SINO), Bernie Sanders, has increased the rhetoric and hysteria using the 36,000 figure he gleaned from a left leaning website. (See here)

Incidentally, as a measure of his phony attachment to socialism Bernie steadfastly refuses to answer any questions on the disastrous failure of the socialist policies he advocates in Venezuela and more pointedly like all wealthy socialists he refuses to redistribute his own considerable wealth to the poor he champions.

The old saying that things are always bigger and better in America does not apply to healthcare induced death, if one professor’s figures are correct. The British National Health Service is way ahead.

Bernie Sander’s forecast of 36,000 deaths is a drop in the bucket compared to the involuntary slaughter in the NHS. Professor Patrick Pullicino claims that 135,000 elderly people die each year by use of the Liverpool Care Pathway which removes medical support from the elderly to speed their passing. 

This does not include the 30,000 or so elderly people who die of hypothermia each winter because they can’t afford their deliberately inflated heating bills.

The Liverpool Care Pathway started as a compassionate means of relief from suffering agreed with the families which has morphed into a program of euthanasia. (Read the article here)

In event of the professors’ theory being incorrect, the involuntary death toll in the NHS is considerable with 1,200 involuntary deaths in the Mid Staffordshire Hospital Trust alone. (See here)

The American people should be aware  that any government run department or organization, healthcare provision included, always ends with a bloated self-perpetuating bureaucracy stuffed to the gunwales with self-serving career bureaucrats whose only purpose in life is to agitate for ever increasing sums of taxpayer money.

They only need to look as far as their Medicare and Medicaid systems not to mention the failings of the Department of Veterans Affairs. (VA)

It is my humble opinion that Obamacare was implemented as a stepping stone to a single payer system and was designed to fail in order to bring it about.

   

The fact that Obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster for the American people has been studiously ignored by the charlatans on the left and the MSM.

People need to understand that socialized medicine or a single payer system is the goal of all socialists not because it delivers universal healthcare free at the point of need but for removing the responsibility for their personal health and wellbeing from individuals and families and passing it to the state bureaucrats.

As Ronald Reagan warned back in the 1960’s, if the government controls your healthcare they end up controlling all aspects of your life.

In the case of Obamacare it also gave control over one-sixth of the giant American economy to politicians and government bureaucrats.

Lying of course is now deemed as an acceptable practice in acquisition of political power and there was no bigger exponent than President Obama. One of the biggest lies ever perpetrated by an American President, or any politician for that matter, was the notorious whopper he delivered in support of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

He knew he was lying through his teeth when he spoke the now infamous words - “if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, period. If you like your healthcare plan you can keep your healthcare plan, period.”.

He followed this up with other lies including the falsehood that healthcare cost will decrease by an average of $1,200 for a family of four per year.

In reality, as with other government run programs the opposite was true, premiums and deductibles sky rocketed putting healthcare cover out of reach for millions or it provided cover they couldn’t afford to use.

The American people would be wise to ignore the lies and deceit of self-serving swamp dwellers in Washington DC and accept that Obamacare needs to be repealed in its entirety and replaced with a free market system that leaves individuals and families to decide their own healthcare needs and keeps the dirty hands of politicians as far away as possible.

Previous articles on the failed NHS:


NHS Kills MP's Husband - She Must Accept Responsibility For His Demise.


Obamacare Is Dead - Failed NHS Is In A Coma On Life Support



Healthcare Scavengers Feed On The Corpse Of A Much Loved Friend

Healthcare Scavengers Feed On The Corpse Of A Much Loved Friend

While the debate rages in the USA about replacing Obamacare, the American people should be made aware that like the socialized health care system in Great Britain Speaker Paul Ryan's plan will expand government dependency by creating more entitlements and bureaucrats will gorge themselves on the endless supply of taxpayers money.

It has become an eternal truth that wherever there is an unlimited supply of taxpayers money scavengers and parasites appear from nowhere to exploit the largess and stuff their pockets and their bank accounts with ill-gotten gains.

Like all organizations that are financed by the long suffering taxpayer these career bureaucrats give themselves fancy titles to deflect attention away from what they really are; namely parasites and scavengers that have made a career out of conning the public about their expertise then growing fat on looted money.

Hence in Great Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) there are hundreds of thousands of self-styled healthcare professionals, healthcare consultants, healthcare experts who’s only discernible skill is perpetuating themselves by creating ever more complex rules and regulations then expanding the existing bureaucracy to police them. (One horrendous fat cat looting scandal here)

Like an amoeba they have the ability to multiply themselves by dividing and sub-dividing without any apparent stimuli from outside.

Recent figures show that some five hundred and fifty-six thousand (556,000) non-clinical staff are currently employed by the NHS which does not include clinically trained staff who no longer serve on the front line having become full-time bureaucrats.

Also this figure does not include sub-contractors and agency staff that consume resources but don’t appear in the headcount numbers.

It is accepted that a certain amount of non-clinical, administrative staff are essential to the smooth running of any organization but the NHS has gone far beyond what is required and become a bureaucratic behemoth that devours taxpayers money in exchange for ever increasing amounts of rules and regulations.

Complexity is a black hole for money and the friend of the bureaucrat; the following is the labyrinth that’s stands between sick patients and the healthcare they pay for through their taxes.

If that’s not complex enough inside each of the boxes above lurks another equally complex and expensive bureaucracy that puts further distance between the sick and the treatment they need . In the case of serious illness and diseases it stands between life and death.

A local NHS Trusts for example looks like this:

These self same healthcare professionals, consultants and experts speak their own alien language which is unintelligible to all but those initiated into the esoteric world of the bureaucrat. One has to wonder if this language hasn't been deliberately designed to confuse simple minded politicians into handing over evermore sums of taxpayer money without question.

Hence, in the language of the bureaucrat, funding the NHS has become:

"Mapping the Health & Social Care Procurement Landscape by Maturity, Impact and Operating Model" and it looks like this.

  

These self-styled professionals, consultants and experts don’t come cheap with six figure salaries, gold-plated pensions and generous expense accounts awarded without any apparent requirement to deliver results. Unlike private industry there are no sanctions in event of non-delivery or, in the case of the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust, mass deaths caused by poor healthcare delivery.

(Mid-Staffs scandal. Only one unnamed manager sacked despite 1,200 deaths. See here)

Anyone who has had the misfortune to work with a bloated out of control bureaucracy will know that they are not only expensive, hopelessly inefficient, time consuming and an obstacle to performance but unaccountable as well. Faceless bureaucrats notorious for their fancy job titles are in charge of everything but responsible for nothing when their inefficiency and incompetence is exposed by poor results and scandal.

( Nine out of ten hospitals unsafe. Report here)

Unscrupulous politicians never miss an opportunity to pursue their agenda hence the NHS has been politicized to the point where imposing political correctness has taken precedence over patient care.

While demand has increased due to a surge in population, numbers of frontline clinical staff has not kept pace exponentially. This has caused waiting lists to become even longer than they already are resulting in the deterioration of the patients condition.

This scandalous inefficiency has spawned a spin off industry which is nothing more than a scam which fleeces patients who are desperate for treatment. Faced with a delay of months or longer for treatment, the doctor or consultant concerned will offer to treat the patient privately without delay for a payment, often in cash in hand.

Frightened patients desperate for treatment have been known to sell the family silver or go into debt in order to get treatment they've already pay for. Doctors and consultants with waiting lists running into months can suddenly find time to treat patients privately for a wad of cash.

Known as 'going private' it makes the NHS  ethos of  healthcare free at the point of need regardless of ability to pay looking a bit sick and in need of attention itself.

This article is intended to highlight to the American people some of the pitfalls of nationalized healthcare provision and it could run into several volumes. I would urge them to read what is written so far and be absolutely sure that the replacement of Obamacare offered by Speaker Ryan is not the same inefficient, taxpayer funded gravy train that will benefit bureaucrats and agenda driven politicians at the expense of those in need of healthcare.

Further reading on NHS scandals:

Revealed: 9000 deaths per year caused by politicians worshipping at the alter of the NHS here

Greedy NHS fat cat bosses awarded millions while hospitals go broke here

Revolving door. One in 5 staff paid off by the NHS are re-hired here





       

Obamacare Is Dead – Failed NHS Is Still In A Coma On Life Support

The difference between a successful businessman as President and an agenda driven political operative as Prime Minister gets more stark with every day that passes. President Trump has taken more action to the benefit of the American people in his first fifty days in office than British Prime Minister Theresa May has achieved in her two decade long political career;  this includes an accomplishment free six years as Home Secretary and eight months as Prime Minister.

Despite being given the biggest mandate in British political history, her dithering and lack of action to initiate Brexit is in total contrast to President Trump’s twenty-seven major actions since his inauguration on January 20^th 2017. (See here)

Included in these actions was the long anticipated repeal and replacement of Obamacare. This was the failed attempt by the left-wing radical cabal fronted by Barack Obama to impose a socialist healthcare system on the American people which succeeded only in destroying the existing system which, despite its flaws, was considered to be one of the best in the world.

No such luck for the majority of British people who have been stuck with their antiquated monument to socialist failure since its inception in 1947. Private healthcare is available in Great Britain but its out of reach for all but the wealthy along with privileged public sector bureaucrats. Private healthcare insurance is also used by employers as an incentive to attract or retain key employees.

It speaks volumes about the standard of the National Health Service (NHS) when avoiding it by using private health insurance is used as an incentive but I digress.

Anyone familiar with British attitudes toward healthcare provision will be aware that despite being a disastrous failure of epic proportions any criticism whatsoever of the NHS is strictly forbidden. Its divine status has been deliberately cultivated and embedded in the minds of a gullible populace by an unscrupulous political class and cynically used for electoral purposes.

Politicians from all parts of the political spectrum claim to be the sole protectors of the NHS but are never responsible when it fails and innocent people die unnecessarily while in its care. Politicians from each party blame the other side whenever a scandal erupts many of which have resulted in the deaths of tens, hundreds and in the case of the Mid Staffs disaster twelve hundred patients. (See here)

Despite these ‘unnecessary deaths’, as they are callously referred to, this failed provider is still touted as the ‘envy of the world’ and to give the impression that it’s a much loved publicly owned service politicians refer to it as our NHS.

This is nonsense of course because like all institutions in Great Britain, large or small, the NHS was politicized by the Blair government as part of their fundamental transformation which was imposed on behalf UN/EU global elite.

Political correctness and imposing multi-culturalism has replaced healthcare provision and patient care as the top priority and - as is now routine in modern day Great Britain - anyone who questions this policy is smeared as a racist, a bigot, a xenophobe and possibly subject to prosecution under one-way hate crime laws.

The truth is that this failed healthcare provider is no more our NHS than it’s our BBC, our police service or our Houses of Parliament. Along with all the other public institutions these have been co-opted by the UN/EU global elite with the sole purpose of imposing their cultural replacement agenda on the British people who weren’t consulted, didn’t ask for it and don’t want it.

The NHS was instituted in 1947 and designed to provide universal healthcare for conditions as they existed in post-war Great Britain. Diseases due to poor nutrition, poor hygiene and occupational illnesses from industries such as coal mining, iron making and ship building were endemic which gave rise to the poor health of the nation.

Tens of thousands of injured military personnel from World War I and as many again returning home after World War II further degraded the health of the nation.

Conditions have changed beyond recognition since 1947 but due to the divine status bestowed upon the NHS not only is criticism forbidden but any kind of reform is forbidden no matter how minor.

It is this refusal to implement desperately needed reforms that has created the bureaucratic behemoth we have today along with its appetite for taxpayer’s money which shows no signs of ever being satiated.

The demands for more funding to stave off an imminent collapse have been a clarion call at each and every election since its inception with each side blaming the other for any lack of funding.

When elections are over, the soundbites and slogans put away and the political class resume their seats on the gravy train, sick people and their loved ones are faced with an unenviable choice; they can either wait days or weeks for an appointment with their GP, then wait even longer for a consultation or they can pay cash up front to jump the queue (known as ‘going private’). After the choice is made they stand the chance of dying through poor care or from one of the hospital acquired infections more associated with the rudimentary health care facilities in the third world.

Anyone who has worked for a public sector behemoth will know that the ruling bureaucracy is stuffed to the rafters with placemen, cronies, family members and ideologically driven political operatives who are embedded specifically to impose political correctness and the government’s ‘progressive’ agenda.

Since this monster is funded by an endless supply of taxpayers money the remuneration packages, pensions and perks that these professional bureaucrats award themselves is eye watering compared to the average salary of a nurse or medical orderly.

The deafening noises made by politicians about income inequality are rendered silent when it comes to NHS fat cat bureaucrats and frontline nursing staff.

Public health and patient care are a long way down the list of priorities for these so-called healthcare professionals who have the habit of disappearing when a scandal erupts or their pension pots mature then magically re-appearing in a similar job somewhere else in the bureaucracy often on a more lucrative remuneration package than before.

In conclusion, it’s a sad fact that tens of millions of people are taken in by this ‘envy of the world’ nonsense and are blinded to the fact that the NHS is a bloated self-perpetuating bureaucracy comprised mainly of non-medical professionals with an insatiable appetite for taxpayers money.

   

It is antiquated, inefficient and no longer fit for purpose; in essence it’s a living monument to a bygone socialist age whereby public services are run on the basis of an outdated ideology instead of efficient user based service providers designed to deliver specific outcomes especially in the realm of public health and patient care.      

                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Obamacare Insanity - America Should Study The NHS And Be Afraid

There's something satisfying about watching politicians tear themselves apart attempting to justify the unjustifiable.  So it is with the current battle between Democrats and Republicans in the USA over funding for Obamacare.  Democrats want to fundamentally transform America into a third world socialist state on the grounds of equality and fairness while Republicans are trying to hold the line for a free America.

Unfortunately for the people stuck in the middle, neither set of politicians has a clue what the American public want.  Like politicians the world over they are nothing more than a remote, privileged group of self serving career bureaucrats who's length of vision only stretches as far as the next election.

It's a continuing theme on this site that these political shysters have little or no experience in the real world where real people have to live with the consequences of the stupidity emanating from their legislatures. The socialist politicians in the Democrat Party insulate themselves from the world of their constituents with pay and conditions, including health care cover, that they deny everyone else. Like socialists everywhere they are total hypocrites of the very highest order.

Equality and fairness is at the core of their perverted ideology but it doesn't apply to their friends, cronies and contributors, who have been given a waiver from the very law that they are forcing on the constituents under threat of financial penalties from the Internal Revenue Service.  Known as the IRS this is the corrupt government department stuffed with socialist apparatchiks that harass and intimidate anyone who opposes the Obama junta.

For a country born of individual liberty, personal responsibility and constitutionally limited government, the Obama junta is the stuff of nightmares with Obamacare at its core.  This one law alone will herald the end of Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave that has brought so much innovation and prosperity to an often ungrateful world.

Taking a lead from Great Britain's own Phony Tony Blair, the use of spin, deceit and outright lies has become an everyday part of political discourse by Democrats so getting at the truth about 'socialized medicine' is almost as difficult as getting timely medical treatment in the NHS.

To find out what the politicians have in store for them when they nationalize health care, the American people only have to look at the death factories that pass for hospitals and care homes in Great Britain.

As they say in America, 'do the math': you cannot add fifty million more people onto the current health care system without causing an overload.  Health will have to be rationed and will become much more expensive.  In the NHS rationing and long waiting lists are the norm.  Some patients have to wait days just to see their own General Practitioner (GP). 

Due to the inexperience (and stupidity) of the career socialist politicians in the Labour government, they negotiated a new contract with GP's that doubled their pay and cut their hours.  Consequently GP's get six figure salaries and no longer have to work out of normal working hours or at weekends. For the sick, the elderly and those prone to illness such as children and babies, it is unwise to fall ill after five o'clock in the evening, on weekends or on public holidays.

People will recall the faux outrage by the Democrats and their media whores when the great American patriot Sarah Palin, warned of  bureaucrats on death panels deciding medical treatment on the basis of cost as opposed to clinical need.  She was absolutely correct.  In the NHS these death panels have been given the title of the National Council for Clinical Excellence, known by its initials N.I.C.E.  The bureaucrats that sit on these panels are not so nice and in cases of expensive treatment they will decide if a patient lives or dies.

It's not only bureaucrats that can make life or death decisions, medical staff such as doctors or nurses can also play God.  In the case of very sick patients they can hasten a journey to the undertaker by depriving patients of food and water. This is called the Liverpool Care Pathway and is only supposed to be used where patients have only a day or two left on planet Earth and only with the consent of loved ones.

In many cases hospital staff have made this decision to cut costs, without the necessary consent and patients have often lasted much longer than planned in a weakened, painful and dehydrated state.

DNAR are the initials of another death inducing practice in the NHS. These initials stand for Do Not Attempt Resuscitation.  Families can elect for medical staff not to attempt resuscitation should a very sick patient have a heart attack or stroke. These initials are clearly annotated on the patients file.  It should come as no surprise to learn that families have found DNAR on the files of loved ones who are very ill but expected to make a full recovery.

These two issues serve to give the reader only a small flavor of the NHS; it is much, much worse. The MRSA and C Difficile scandals have been forgotten by the twenty four hour news cycle but the relatives of the hundreds and possibly thousands of patients who died through these two diseases will not forget. It shouldn't be forgotten either that these diseases are the result of exposure to filth. Patients dying in dirty, disgusting, filthy hospitals because nobody is responsible for cleanliness standards.

Dehydrated patients lying hungry in their own excrement on blood stained bedding while hospital staff gossip about their weekend exploits or compare tattoos at their nursing station.

Then there is the Mid Staffordshire death scandal where up to 1,200 died horribly because of a lack of care not to mention Doctor Harold Shipman, the NHS doctor who killed up to 260 patients just because he felt like it.

For other appalling NHS scandals see here.

As our American cousins are finding out to their cost it's not only the IRS increasing its bureaucracy to force this system down their throats. The British have suffered this bureaucratic army since 1947. The organization has become a rest home for Labour Party cronies in search of a sinecure or a stepping stone for career 'progressive' politicians who are earning their spurs in the pen pushing and indoctrination trades.

Here is the rogues gallery of leading NHS bureaucrats, please note the lack off medical staff.

The NHS is the third biggest employer in the world behind the Indian Railways and the Chinese Red Army.  Speaking of which, the Chief Executive who presided over these death factories including Mid Staffordshire, is Sir David Nicholson, a career civil servant and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain until its demise in 1983.  He refuses to accept responsibility and resign in light of the  scandals which took place under his watch.

A fellow bureaucrat Cynthia Bower, who was supposed to monitor standards in the NHS, is guilty of covering up the scandals and she is refusing to cooperate with the police inquiry. This appalling woman is an example of an ideologically driven civil servant who would rather lie than see the public image of this socialist monstrosity be shown in its true light.  She has resigned but she should be thrown in the slammer until she does cooperate with the police inquiry or better still put in one of her own hospital beds under the Liverpool Care Pathway.

The American people should study the NHS and learn what their ideologically driven political shysters have planned for them. As one can expect in a government run organization the size of the NHS, inefficiency and bureaucratic incompetence are the norm. The whole hideous construct is run in the interests of socialist ideology and its employees rather than the interests of the sick.  Not being able to organise a p*ss up in a brewery doesn't go anywhere near describing these idiots who run the British people's "most cherished institution".