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01/03/2018 / By JD Heyes

British woman now carries her “heart” around in a backpack after an AMAZING life-saving surgery

There is an expression that some people ‘carry their heart on their sleeve,’ which means those people tend to openly display their deepest thoughts and emotions. But one British woman literally carries her heart on her back — in a backpack — following an amazing, first-ever surgery at one of the world’s top hospitals. As […]

11/08/2017 / By JD Heyes

BROKE: Single-payer British health system may begin rationing surgeries even if it kills people due to a lack of funding

For anyone who is serious about genuine healthcare reform in the United States, Britain’s National Health Service continues to provide example after example of why Americans should politically punish Sen. Bernie Sanders and any other Democrat who insists in implementing a similar system here. As reported by the UK’s Daily Mail, the NHS’ financial watchdog […]

10/20/2017 / By JD Heyes

Obesity-induced diabetes in the U.K. behind more than 160 amputations per WEEK; most die within 5 years

The obesity-related diabetes disaster continues unabated in the United Kingdom, triggering a rash of amputations that may be causing premature death in 80 percent of patients. As reported by the U.K.’s Daily Mail, the obesity epidemic is feeding into a record-high 160 amputations per week, according to the most recent health figures, which adds up […]

10/15/2017 / By JD Heyes

Britain’s socialized care continues to collapse as health secretary warns too many family doctors are leaving the system

It may have been one option once upon a time for the country of England, but as its population has grown over the years — and aged, and gotten more unhealthy — costs of running the National Health Service have skyrocketed past the point where the government can adequately fund its needs. And now, because the […]

10/05/2017 / By JD Heyes

Socialized medicine FAIL: UK losing 400 doctors PER MONTH as system collapses amid chronic funding shortages

Most Left-wing American political figures, entertainers and academics speak highly of the United Kingdom’s socialized medicine system, saying that the U.S. ought to emulate it. But they don’t live there so they don’t really know just how bad it is, and how close it is getting to collapse. In fact, the National Health Service is […]

07/26/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Living on processed foods and junk nutrition, American girls are now the fattest in the world, study finds

A study that was led by the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand found that schoolgirls in the United States and the United Kingdom are the worst in the world for having stomach fat, with half of American and British girls in both countries’ total population classified as “overfat”, making them at risk of […]

02/02/2017 / By Daniel Barker

NHS doctors, nurses say government-run healthcare a dismal failure that puts lives at risk

British doctors and nurses are warning that the nation’s government-run healthcare system is in such bad shape that many patients’ lives are being put at risk. A group of leading doctors from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) have sent a letter to prime minister Theresa May saying that the NHS “will fail” without immediate […]

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