The American Healthcare System, my thoughts on a disgrace

I URGE YOU TO DEBATE HERE, DO NOT JUST LIKE, SHARE YOUR STORY, WHAT IS YOUR OPINION, PLEASE! 

It pains me to speak to friends and watch a nation called the “Beacon for freedom” and the “World’s Super Power” and discover 150+ people die each day because they don’t have insurance. The USA was once looked upon as the place to go; the American Dream was once the big thing, now you truly have to be asleep to see it

I speak to many, I research well, and this is the damning truth of a country now more interested in War and sending $Billions$ of dollars to mainly Muslim countries than helping its own people, anyone who can’t see it that way isn’t paying attention to what is happening over there. I am from a tiny island 5,000 miles and I can see it, so can many, but just how bad is it? Just how bad has it become? Just how wrong has the USA become at Governmental level? These are questions we could ask all day, but finding answers is the difficult bit, the gray area so to speak

A country I love, a people I love, in bits, falling to its knee’s faster than the Roman empire did, it is sad that people die because they have less money than the person standing next to them. Obama Care, give me a laugh, it changed nothing, and it is an illusion of care, where none exists

I was speaking to Doc over at http://hrexach.wordpress.com/ and she is an ex medical person, she sent me a link to a Senator from the USA, I posted it already, in-case you missed it, check what he has to say, he is from Florida, his name is Alan Grayson, like Ron Paul a politician who seems to want to help the people and not go to war

He brings many good points to the table, and the headline in the media says it all “What your Government doesn’t want you to see” This says it all for me, The USA has turned into a species of people (Due to Government) where Money will keep you alive, this is wrong, so very,very wrong

This is an outrage, and the longer you guys stand back and allow this to happen, the more the War Machine and the greed will be more important THAN YOU. This is sad. Over here in the UK, we pay less tax, we see the Dr the same day we need to, if we need to, we get our medication, we can take a trip to the hospital at ANY time, and this is all free

Don’t allow a national tragedy to keep happening, act now

This was a study done by Harvard http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/ it is a HARD read, but it must be read.

Are you for War or are you for the living? For me the choice is an easy one. Why allow your Government to spend BILLIONS on foreign aid and Wars and risk YOU dying

Take a long, hard look in the mirror and ask the HARD questions, life over liberty?

Don’t make me laugh, people say “People still flock to the USA” This may be true, but why? There is nothing to gain. People flock to the UK for free homes and free healthcare and money

My love to the American people

Shaun

Remember my blog about, NHS in the UK against USA Healthcare?

 

JUST TO SAY, MOST OF THE PEOPLE I FOLLOW OR WHO FOLLOW ME ARE DISABLED. I AM SEVERALLY DISABLED. MANY OF MY BLOGS LIKE THIS ONE HERE ARE THROUGH TALKING TO PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY THE USA WHERE I SPEAK TO MORE ON SKYPE AUDIO. I HEAR SOME SHIT STORIES. SO PLEASE, THESE BLOGS ARE MORE FOR THE PEOPLE BEING LET DOWN BY HEALTHCARE IN THE USA AND AS YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE HERE, MY COUNTRY ALSO! JUST NEEDED TO REMIND A FEW OF THAT. Thanks. Shaun 

In this blog here I compared the UK NHS with the American Healthcare, http://prayingforoneday.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/uk-nhs-vs-usa-healthcare-face-off/ and I did say the NHS was not perfect here in the UK/Scotland. It is free, practices by Dr’s locally for me have always been superb, I have never had an issue while being in Hospital, the times I have been in with Family, even my own son, I couldn’t thank them enough. This is Scotland remember. Part of the UK, but we run our own affairs, without independence from the UK. This article from Sky news is DAMNING towards English NHS Hospitals, In a report mentioned in Prime Ministers questions, the care in England is SHOCKING, people are dying

Link: http://news.sky.com/story/1116160/report-slams-high-death-rate-nhs-hospital (With Video)

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=NHS (With Video)

Report Slams High Death Rate NHS Hospital as 13,000 die for no reason! 

Staff at a hospital being investigated by the NHS medical director for having a high death rate put targets ahead of patient care, according to a report.

Tameside General Hospital in Greater Manchester is one of 14 of the worst trusts in England at the centre of a probe spearheaded by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh into hospitals with high mortality rates after the scandal at Stafford Hospital.

Sky’s Health Correspondent Thomas Moore obtained a report detailing the findings into Tameside which revealed a series of critical findings into chronic mismanagement and failings in patient care.

The investigation found “insufficient levels of nursing staff”, “poor supervision of junior doctors by consultants” and a “lack of compassion” from staff dealing with patient complaints.

There were insufficient critical care beds which meant patients were being treated in the wrong place.

The report also detailed specific examples of poor care including a patient with the superbug Clostridium difficile being admitted to a six-bed bay which immediately put the other five patients at risk of a potentially fatal bacterial infection.

Tameside is one of 14 trusts with high death rates in the spotlight

In another case, a patient was given penicillin despite telling staff that they were allergic to the antibiotic, while members of one family were left to clean up a loved one with faecal incontinence.

On one unannounced visit to the hospital, the most senior surgical doctor in the hospital was a trainee with just two years’ experience.

“The culture appeared to be one of managing targets rather than ensuing overall quality and patient experience,” the report said.

“The panel was not convinced that the Board has the capability currently to fully address the cultural change required in the Trust.”

Moore said: “We had heard that perhaps Stafford was a one-off scandal. This (the report) shows that it wasn’t.”

The father of a 12-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who died at the hospital on February 7, 2011, told Sky News what an independent specialist told the inquest into his daughter Emma’s death.

Michael Stones’ daughter Emma, 12, died at Tameside in 2011

“She said in her experience, if medical intervention would have happened at an earlier stage, she said Emma would have probably survived,” said Michael Stones.

“And this was verified by the coroner in his verdict. So we are put in a situation where we’ll never know because of the absolute, disgraceful behaviour of that hospital towards my daughter. An animal gets treated better.”

Among the 14 trusts under close scrutiny because of their mortality rates over the last two years are Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, Buckinghamshire Healthcare, Burton Hospitals, Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation, and The Dudley Group.

Others include East Lancashire Hospitals, George Eliot Hospital, Medway NHS Foundation, North Cumbria University Hospitals, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals, Sherwood Forest Hospitals and United Lincolnshire Hospitals.

Moore said the findings into each of them – due to be published on Tuesday – would “paint a terrible picture of an NHS that in some areas still isn’t able to provide the care and the compassion that patients would expect”.

The long-awaited report commissioned by the Government is expected to reveal that up to 13,000 people may have died needlessly in NHS hospitals since 2005.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will deliver a statement to MPs in the House of Commons on the probe.

UK NHS vs USA Healthcare face-off

JUST TO SAY, MOST OF THE PEOPLE I FOLLOW OR WHO FOLLOW ME ARE DISABLED. I AM SEVERALLY DISABLED. MANY OF MY BLOGS LIKE THIS ONE HERE ARE THROUGH TALKING TO PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY THE USA WHERE I SPEAK TO MORE ON SKYPE AUDIO. I HEAR SOME SHIT STORIES. SO PLEASE, THESE BLOGS ARE MORE FOR THE PEOPLE BEING LET DOWN BY HEALTHCARE IN THE USA AND AS YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE HERE, MY COUNTRY ALSO! JUST NEEDED TO REMIND A FEW OF THAT. Thanks. Shaun 

I hear all the horror stories from friends in the USA about the cost of seeing a Dr, cost of medication, cost of goig to Hospital, my friend Bishop Eddie Tatro moved house and due to this had to wait for a Dr to give him his medication, here is the blog, http://bishoptatro.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/grrrrrrrrrrrrrr-pain/ I hear many stories of people struggling to live due to the cost of being ill in the USA. I have heard awful stories of people dying because they had no money, or they had to wait. The video done by Michael Moore, Sicko

In this movie about Healthcare, I watched it with my JAW DROPPED TO THE FLOOR, it was all about profit, money over health. The lies you hear in this is unreal, here is the full movie for anyone who has not seen it, it is in 10 parts and if you are SICK of being SICK then give this a watch, the first speech is from George W Bush, lying! I cried watching this, people getting done over by a system who charges you for an AMBULANCE RIDE AFTER A CAR CRASH!! FFS! 50 Million + don’t have Health insurance, and the people who do have insurance who are living the American Dream, for people with no insurance, people die, in THE USA! In 2013, the beacon for freedom and democracy, Bullshit! People think they are covered, then after an accident, some person, a rich person in a suit, in an office somewhere decides if you get Healthcare, in some instances, they lie, they use small print to lie and save money. If you have not seen Sicko, I say watch it, you live in the USA so you do know, of course you do, but check the stories out, I am speechless!

Turn the coin around, I will give an example, http://prayingforoneday.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/just-took-10mg-morphine-snapped-my-knee-yesterday/ in this blog here and other times like it, I call my Dr Surgery at say 8 am and I am told to come in within the hour. I go in, see my Dr, who is a brilliant man, and I was home with the medication I needed within 3 hours of the call in one situation. All free, no money. Even if you work, it is free, if you earn over £30,000 a year or so, your prescription is £6.50 I think, not sure. So all free. If I need to take myself to hospital, I go, get whatever is needed done, done, then home, all free, the price of gas (Petrol here in the UK) for my car, we get it free, there is nobody in my Government making money off the ill people. The care here, for me is Amazing. I needed adaptations done to my house, and although I do work a little, I am on Disability so I get work done free, even though, as I say, I work, self employed, when I can, fixing computers, I still get everything free, so do my friends and family, there is burden here for many. I am sure a few from the UK will have a story to tell, but anyone in the UK who isn’t happy only needs to watch the video above. Our NHS was started not long after WWII by the labour party, it is our crown in the jewel so to speak. If ANY UK Government was to sell this or privatise it, there would be anorchy in the streets in the UK

This is not right. Tiny little Scotland on the map gets it all free, while the beacon for democracy and freedom in the World makes money out of illness and bad health. Over here, the Government pay, but it is very little. The NHS is the single best Health care system on Earth, and still people from the UK are unhappy and moan. It was not till I spoke to people like Eddie and others on Skype I realised how bad and shit things were for you guys in the  USA. I start this blog so people can share stories. Am I wrong? Am I right? Please share your stories, be you from the USA or the UK, not that I have a lot of followers from the UK, but please, leave a comment, anything

This is insane! 2013 and people are dying and are in agony in the USA because of Greed and Money