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01/09/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

Non-urgent health care services being put on hold across the UK as state-run health care nightmare edges toward collapse

The National Health Service in New England has put a hold on non-urgent health care services, as the state-run healthcare system edges toward collapse. State officials have instructed hospitals across the country to delay non-emergency procedures and only deal with emergency patients first. About 55,000 operations are to be put on hold in January as […]

12/09/2017 / By JD Heyes

Collapsing Venezuela’s chronic shortages have led to creation of “medical flea markets”

Life in Venezuela under the “socialist revolution” of President Nicolas Maduro continues to devolve into a hellish existence, and that is especially true when it comes to basic human needs like nourishment and medical care. To the latter, things are so bad in the South American nation that at any given time, its pharmaceutical association […]

10/18/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

U.K. health care system may deny surgery to smokers and the obese

A new plan by the Hertfordshire clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) of the U.K.’s national health care system, the NHS, will deny surgery to patients who are obese and those who smoke. Not surprisingly, the news is being met with some heated debate on the part of patients as well as doctors. The new plan would […]

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 […]

09/10/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

England’s National Health Service in trouble, services may soon be CLOSED to new patients

Surgery and dental services in England may soon be unavailable to new patients, according to reports by the Daily Mail. Majority of England’s general practitioners (GPs) want to close their surgery lists to new patients in protest at the strain on the National Health Services (NHS), according to survey results reported in the first Daily […]

08/28/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Hospital HORRORS: Cancer patient poisoned with chemo, then left HALF-NAKED on gurney for 13 hours after blood became infected

Chemotherapy is no joke. This toxic chemical treatment has debilitating side effects, including anemia, bleeding, infections, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, constipation, hair loss, mouth sores and extreme fatigue, to name just a few. Imagine trying to deal with all that and then being left lying “half-naked” on a hospital gurney in the corridor of an […]

03/11/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Routine operation kills “extremely active” grandmother after doctor’s blunder

The U.K. National Health Service is facing a lawsuit from the devastated family of a woman who died after a botched routine operation. The NHS is the country’s socialized, government-run healthcare delivery system. In a horrific scenario, doctors reportedly inserted a replacement heart valve upside down into great grandmother Sheila Hynes, 71, who suffered massive […]

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