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Mistakes by NHS staff are killing 12,500 every year: And they operate on wrong body part once a week, reveals Hunt
Health secretary said some serious errors happen six times a week
He said: 'Twice a week we leave a foreign object... inside someone's body'
Up to one in 20 deaths in hospitals can be avoided, according to research
The NHS is loved in the UK. No matter what the Conservatives or our cousins on the continent and across the pond say - there will be no dent on the average citizens support and appreciation for it.
For every NHS horror story, I can find the exact same in the US - and every healthcare system in the world. Try again.
Not only that, but proportionately, the estimated U.S. rate of adverse medical deaths is FAR higher than the UK's. Even using the most modest estimate (98,000) and dividing it by the U.S. population - which is 5x larger than the UK - would lead to a projected rate about 50% higher than the UK. Using the higher estimates, we are talking about 300-600% higher medical error death rates.
Mistakes by NHS staff are killing 12,500 every year: And they operate on wrong body part once a week, reveals Hunt
Health secretary said some serious errors happen six times a week
He said: 'Twice a week we leave a foreign object... inside someone's body'
Up to one in 20 deaths in hospitals can be avoided, according to research
I'm a Brit who has been living in the USA for over 28 years. I miss the NHS, health care here is a joke for the average person, thanks to Obamacare I'm forced to pay over $900 a month now for heatlhcare for a family of four. More than my mortgage, and thats without even going to see a doctor. Once that happens we pay even more again. Plus no tax credits for me as I make just over the allowance. If things get much higher I'm not sure how we are going to pay our heatlh insurance costs!!!!
Healthcare in the USA in just one big money making machine. Unlike the NHS. All those people who say you get what you pay for, that's not so in the USA.
I'm a Brit who has been living in the USA for over 28 years. I miss the NHS, health care here is a joke for the average person, thanks to Obamacare I'm forced to pay over $900 a month now for heatlhcare for a family of four. More than my mortgage, and thats without even going to see a doctor. Once that happens we pay even more again. Plus no tax credits for me as I make just over the allowance. If things get much higher I'm not sure how we are going to pay our heatlh insurance costs!!!!
Healthcare in the USA in just one big money making machine. Unlike the NHS. All those people who say you get what you pay for, that's not so in the USA.
I visit America, and talk with Americans about health care. What you say is correct. It's probably the best health care in the world for those that can afford good cover. For the rest, well, it seems to be getting more, and more, expensive.
Where's the guy who started this thread gone? I'm in a right bad mood, my wife burned my dinner.....
He's in Las Vegas apparently...... well, let's talk about LV medical care. How about the mentally ill on Fremont Street? Nobody gives a s**t about them. I saw a distressed woman talking to herself, facing a wall. She had soiled herself...... nobody gave a damn about her. My wife and I didn't know what to do to help. Americans just walked by as if she was invisible. A similar situation in England, would have been a 999 call, and she would have been taken by ambulance to a mental health unit.
OP is not relevant to the forum, and worded to inflame and incite. If real discussion is intended then lets compare and contrast medical systems warts and all.
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