Since ObamaCare is, in no small part, modeled on the British National Health System (NHS), I thought you might be interested in Padraic Flanagan and Laura Donnelly\’s article in London\’s Daily Telegraph.
Here are a few highlights. Please pay particular attention to the paragraphs I\’ve put in bold print:
Atleast 1,000 hospital patients are dying needlessly each month fromdehydration and poor care by doctors and nurses, according to an NHSstudy.
Thedeaths from acute kidney injury could be prevented by simple stepssuch as nurses ensuring patients have enough to drink and doctorsreviewing their medication, the researchers say.
Between15,000 and 40,000 patients die annually because hospital staff failto diagnose the treatable kidney problem, a figure that dwarfs thedeath toll from superbugs like MRSA.
Thereport comes less than a year after the NHS watchdog NICE was forcedto issue guidelines on giving patients water after it found that42,000 deaths a year could be avoided if staff ensured the sick werehydrated.
Ithighlighted how old and vulnerable patients can be left on wardswithout fluids, quickly becoming too weak from dehydration to requesta drink from nurses, which hastens their deterioration.
“Manyof the failings identiļ¬ed in the report related to basic medicalcare, such as checking of electrolytes, performance of physiologicalobservations and adequate senior review,” the researchers found.
How can this be? How can this happen? Are doctors and nurses indifferent to their patients\’ health? Or are they overwhelmed by the system as it is, and forced to make decisions as to who will and will not be helped?
How can seniors, in particular, be treated this way? Has a conscious decision been made that, with limited resources, they are the ones who fall to the back of the line? And, if so, does that mean the people making these decisions are, in fact, “death panels”?
Take a good, long look at what you just read. Because it is not at all out of the question that, before too long, you will be reading the same about hospitals not in Britain, but in Boston. And New York. And Chicago, and Kankakee, and Podunk Station.
