From, where else, one of those countries that those who love socialized/nationalized medicine and healthcare think is supa-wonderful: WOMEN MAY GO BLIND BECAUSE SHE LIVES IN WRONG AREA
Lesley Fletcher, 55, has been prescribed a vital drug by her consultant but her local NHS Trust has refused to pay for it – despite the drug being routinely prescribed elsewhere in the UK.
Ms Fletcher will travel to WestÂminster today to speak before an all-party Parliamentary group on visual health about the shameful way people in some areas are left without treatment.
The catering assistant, who works for the NHS at Airedale General Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire, said her “whole world fell apart†when she was told that North Yorkshire Primary Care Trust would not fund the treatment.
Why?
Ms Fletcher was told by her consultant that although her home address is in West Yorkshire she actually came under the jurisdiction of North Yorkshire Primary Care Trust. Had she lived just two miles further into West Yorkshire it is likely she would have received funding for her treatment.
Coming to a zip code near you.
But, hey, it’s not as if doctors are continuing to opt out of government run insurance programs in the U.S. or anything.
Teach 59% of American doctors want a national health planhttp://www.healthpopuli.com/2008/04/most-doctors-want-national-health-plan.html
Even the AMA is on record as supporting Obama’s health care reformhttp://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/legislation-advocacy/current-topics-advocacy.shtml
Teach about 25% of our health care dollar goes for administration that is higher than for any other country. Most countries with a national health plan like Germay and Switzerland spend 5% or less on administration costs. Teach why not look at national health plans that work, not at the ones that don’t ? Also Teach please remember that Americans pay about 250% more than the UK in health costs Perhaps if the UK spent as much per person as we do than the health care would be better. But of course as it is now they do live longer than Americans
Teach why do you think American doctors want a national health plan ?
Teach why are you always using the worst examples of national health care why not try some comparissons with the better or best systems ? Systems like the German or the Swiss models ? Do you know that 60% of the American doctors want a national healthcare plan ot hat the AMA is on record as supporting Obama’s health care reform ? In the USA we spend about 250% more per person then is spent in the UK. Do you think that this may be a cause of a difference in care ? Here in the USA we had to fight tooth and nail to get a my sister a bone marrow transplant even tough she had the highest coverage possible. on her health plan