Brit Patients Don’t Complain Because Nothing Can be Done
-By Warner Todd Huston
Ever get a speeding ticket? Have you looked at that ticket in your hand and for a brief second imagined that you’d go right down there to that court and dispute it? But, then you realize that there is simply nothing you can do. No judge or police officer will care what really happened. You realize that government won’t do a thing for you. So, you sigh and just send in a payment.
Now take that feeling of helplessness, that surety that government is a faceless, impersonal and uncaring beast and realize that it will be that cold monster giving you your healthcare if Obama gets his way. The Brits have already realized this and that is why almost one in three national healthcare patients that have problems with their service don’t bother to complain to government. After all, it’s government and there is nothing anyone can really do to help.
Almost one in three patients in Scotland experience problems with their NHS care, but it goes unrecorded because many believe nothing will be done.
A report commissioned by the Scottish Health Council highlighted poor communication and staff attitude as the most persistent problems, but found “significant” barriers to making a complaint.
In all, almost one-third of patients had encountered a problem with the NHS, but 53% of that group did not complain about the service they received, with many saying that it “wouldn’t make any difference”.
This is the hell that President Obama wants visited on every American. A healthcare system that gives no choice, offers no customer service or satisfaction, and builds a brick wall between provider and patient so that problems remain impossible to address.
Of course, the same report I mention above goes on to say that the National Health Service says that most people are satisfied and that their offices did a good job responding to complaints. But, what would you expect the government office to say when asked how well they are doing? Sorry, but it is a bit hard to believe that a government office is doing well when it is the government office we are relying on to tell us how well things are going!
In any case, the feeling of resigned frustration, the despair of giving up on government solutions is common among British health customers. It will also become the helpless feeling that American ones have once Obamacare is passed.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on July 30, 2009 6:00 am
» Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Barack Obama, Congress, Delusional Dupes and DUmmies, Democrats, Economy, Government, Government corruption, Healthcare, Liberal World, President, liberalism
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I have to protest on your use of police in general to compare with an uncaring government. As Obama has said, that’s stupid.
Police are not an uncaring lot; they are individuals who actually care quite a bit.
Now,as to the rest; yes, folks feel like they are wasting their time when they go up against government.
The NHS is an imperfect thing. But it’s still far better overall than the current US system. Everyone in this country knows people who wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for the NHS, who probably would be dead if they’d been in the US- because they wouldn’t have the money or insurance coverage to get the right treatment.
If you’re rich or lucky enough you can get the world’s best medical treatment in the USA. No matter how poor you are, you can be treated by one of the best medical systems in the world if you’re a citizen of the UK- without having to worry whether you can afford it or what it will do to your insurance policy. I know where I’d rather get my medical care.
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Editor’s note: If you’re rich or lucky enough you can get the world’s best medical treatment in the USA.
U.S. hospitals must, by federal law, comply with “Charity Care” aimed specifically at those not “rich or lucky enough”
We do agree however, the world’s best medical treatment is in the USA.
We also agree on where you should get your medical treatment!
Yes. I should get my medical care here in the UK. Where the system provides better care overall, we live longer and we have a lower child mortality rate. And it costs us about a third, per capita, of what the USA’s system costs.
Thank you for agreeing with me.
And it costs us about a third, per capita, of what the USA’s system costs.
You get what you pay for! Along with your 30 percent lower costs, you get an 88 percent higher mortality rate than the US, for common cancers. 604 percent higher for prostate cancer and 40 percent higher for colorectal cancer.
You and Canadians spend twice as much time (sometimes, longer than a year) waiting to get radiation treatment, have elective surgery or to see a specialist.
More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change” or “complete rebuilding.”
You’re in the minority Ian, but then again, does that surprise you?