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As Townhall pointed it, liberals were bragging about the VA as an example of how great socialized medicine works.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps the best example of this was by Paul Krugman:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/27\/medicare-and-the-va\/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1<\/a><\/p>\n

You see, we actually have a real live case of impressive cost control in health care: the VA system.<\/strong><\/em><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Krugman was right about one thing, the VA is a perfect example of how socialized medicine works.\u00a0 If ObamaCare is allowed to continue we will all experience the VA level of service.\u00a0 If you doubt that, read the following article about the NHS from Forbes published in 2013.\u00a0 You won\u2019t see this type of report in the main stream media:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/scottatlas\/2013\/07\/05\/happy-birthday-to-great-britains-increasingly-scandalous-national-health-service\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Access to medical care is so poor in the NHS that the government was compelled to issue England\u2019s 2010 \u201cNHS Constitution\u201d in which it was declared that no patient should wait beyond 18 weeks for treatment \u2013 four months \u2013 after GP referral.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Just think about what this means.\u00a0 You visit your doctor on June 2, 2014. You find out you have cancer and need surgery. \u00a0Great news!\u00a0 You have been moved to the top of the list.\u00a0 Your first appointment with the surgeon is October 6, 2014.\u00a0 But wait, this gets even better.\u00a0 Your surgeon is not actually available on October 6, 2014, so your diagnosis is changed so that this delay doesn\u2019t get reported.\u00a0 That is exactly what Forbes reported happened at the NHS:<\/p>\n

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 \u201coutrageous,\u201d charged that hospitals are cutting their waiting lists by artificially raising thresholds.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

When you think about it, this is brilliant.\u00a0 If you delay surgery long enough the patient dies.\u00a0 Then you report no delay because dead people don\u2019t need surgery.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t this remarkably similar to what is happening at the VA. The problems at the VA should be no surprise.\u00a0 It would be more of a shock if this wasn\u2019t happening.\u00a0 This is what happens when a government bureaucracy tries to run a health care system. It has been happening for years in the UK.\u00a0 It has been happening for years at the VA.\u00a0 \u00a0It is what we can expect under ObamaCare if we are stupid enough to let this happen.\u00a0 Instead under ObamaCare it will be much worse.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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