Great Moments In Socialized Medicine

While Congress is jumping to pass their government overhaul of the health care system, perhaps we should take a look, at a country, that already knows all too well about government run health care.

Recently the London Times Reported: 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 project to upgrade NHS computer systems, The Times has learnt. 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.

Now as i have blogged before, these long wait times similar to the ones described above, will soon be coming here, if such a bill like the house bill is passed. The bill contains, high risk pools, but the catch is, in order to join one you have to be uninsured for 6 months. So in other words, if you need care and wish to join a high risk pool, you will have to wait six months.