As Townhall pointed it, liberals were bragging about the VA as an example of how great socialized medicine works. Perhaps the best example of this was by Paul Krugman:
You see, we actually have a real live case of impressive cost control in health care: the VA system.
Krugman was right about one thing, the VA is a perfect example of how socialized medicine works. If ObamaCare is allowed to continue we will all experience the VA level of service. If you doubt that, read the following article about the NHS from Forbes published in 2013. You won’t see this type of report in the main stream media:
Waits for care are shocking in the NHS, frequently exposed by British media reports, and long proven by facts, yet they go virtually unreported in the U.S.
Access to medical care is so poor in the NHS that the government was compelled to issue England’s 2010 “NHS Constitution” in which it was declared that no patient should wait beyond 18 weeks for treatment – four months – after GP referral.
Just think about what this means. You visit your doctor on June 2, 2014. You find out you have cancer and need surgery. Great news! You have been moved to the top of the list. Your first appointment with the surgeon is October 6, 2014. But wait, this gets even better. Your surgeon is not actually available on October 6, 2014, so your diagnosis is changed so that this delay doesn’t get reported. That is exactly what Forbes reported happened at the NHS:
BBC subsequently discovered that many patients initially assessed as needing surgery were later re-categorized by the hospital so that they could be removed from waiting lists to distort the already unconscionable delays. Royal College of Surgeons President Norman Williams, calling this “outrageous,” charged that hospitals are cutting their waiting lists by artificially raising thresholds.
When you think about it, this is brilliant. If you delay surgery long enough the patient dies. Then you report no delay because dead people don’t need surgery.
Isn’t this remarkably similar to what is happening at the VA. The problems at the VA should be no surprise. It would be more of a shock if this wasn’t happening. This is what happens when a government bureaucracy tries to run a health care system. It has been happening for years in the UK. It has been happening for years at the VA. It is what we can expect under ObamaCare if we are stupid enough to let this happen. Instead under ObamaCare it will be much worse.
TDM
We have known for many years this was the case in many countries with socialized medicine. Uneducated people have no clue what the real Obamacare story is or what the impact of their blind vote will be!