MomoD
TUG Member
The freedom of speach means exactly that, you are entitled to your opion as are all of us.
I'm not sure that anyone having a heart attack would make any list alive!!
I think the term OBAMACARE says it all with regard to any negative information regarding the NHS system, a lot ot people were looking for negative comments, I wonder why?
The thing about statistics are they can be manipulated, so I don't not beleive everything I read in the press.
If you have used the NHS and found it lacking, I am sorry for your disappointment, if not and only have newspapers, maybe you should wait until you have tried it first before trashing it.
I am 100% certain that not all hospitals within the US would pass muster, but that would'nt stop me going if I really needed a doctors help.
[/Quote]While I don't think I have seen any stastics or read any articles concerning heart attack care in the NHS, I have read quite a few about cancer care, where waiting lists too often cause the condition to worsen before a patient makes it up the list for surgery. That results in significantly higher death rates from many cancers in the NHS compared to the US.
Frankly, the articles I read while travelling in the UK in the Daily Telegraph of London, one of the major British newspapers about filthy conditions in a number of HNS hospitals would be enough to cause me to try to avoid any of them. Granted they may only be a minority, but I would not want to chance dealing with the conditions described in those articles.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure that anyone having a heart attack would make any list alive!!
I think the term OBAMACARE says it all with regard to any negative information regarding the NHS system, a lot ot people were looking for negative comments, I wonder why?
The thing about statistics are they can be manipulated, so I don't not beleive everything I read in the press.
If you have used the NHS and found it lacking, I am sorry for your disappointment, if not and only have newspapers, maybe you should wait until you have tried it first before trashing it.
I am 100% certain that not all hospitals within the US would pass muster, but that would'nt stop me going if I really needed a doctors help.
[/Quote]While I don't think I have seen any stastics or read any articles concerning heart attack care in the NHS, I have read quite a few about cancer care, where waiting lists too often cause the condition to worsen before a patient makes it up the list for surgery. That results in significantly higher death rates from many cancers in the NHS compared to the US.
Frankly, the articles I read while travelling in the UK in the Daily Telegraph of London, one of the major British newspapers about filthy conditions in a number of HNS hospitals would be enough to cause me to try to avoid any of them. Granted they may only be a minority, but I would not want to chance dealing with the conditions described in those articles.[/QUOTE]