The left already is wailing about the Medicare and Medicaid reforms in Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget. They don’t have any solutions of their own for these bankrupt programs, but they hope to scare voters in the short run and don’t seem to care about the nation in the long run.
But, as Margaret Thatcher famously warned, the problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money. With that in mind, it’s quite appropriate to cite a story about another needless death resulting from the inefficient U.K. government-run health care system.
But what makes this story so remarkable is that the person who died was part of the upper-level bureaucracy. When folks relatively high in the pecking order start suffering from needless death and wind up having their surgeries delayed four times, you know it’s just a matter of time before the system collapses.
A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation – at her own hospital. Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex. But her appointments to go under the knife were cancelled four times and she barely regained consciousness after finally having surgery. Her devastated husband, Jim, is now demanding answers from Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust – the organisation where his wife had served as a non-executive member of the board of directors.
Keep in mind that this is America’s future if we don’t reform entitlements. That’s what the leftist critics of Ryan’s plan aren’t telling you.
