Great Moments In Socialized Medicine

Here is an entertaining post from the 'Political Coffee House' discussion board.

Great Moments in Socialized Medicine
"Thousands of people are being forced to wait six months or more for hospital treatment or tests because of problems with the £12.7 billion [about $20 billion] project to upgrade NHS computer systems," reports London's Times:

More than 14,000 patients at a major London trust have already had to endure waiting times that exceed government guidelines. The trust was one of the first to install electronic patient records. Similar systems are being rolled out across England.
The Department of Health says that nobody should wait more than 18 weeks to receive hospital treatment from the time they are referred by a GP, unless they choose to wait longer.
But Barts and the London NHS Trust, which introduced the system in April last year, has a backlog of 22,000 electronic patient records on its 18-week waiting list.
Ha ha, don't worry! According to former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, "In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We've all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false."