If You Lived in Britain, Your Tonsils Might be Safe.
Remember when the President accused doctors of performing bazillions of unnecessary tonsillectomies just to get a few extra bucks?
Well, Britain’s not having any of that! The tonsils of the youth of England may find a repreieve from the scalpel, mostly because the country’s government-run health care system — you know, the one like the President wants us to have — can’t afford such fripperies.
A study commissioned from the consultancy firm McKinsey and Company recommends cutting clinical staff posts as well as administrators to meet efficiency savings by 2014, suggesting a knock-on effect to patient care….
The report also said that if four million of the 29 million outpatient appointments each year could be cut, it would save £600 million.
A further £700 million could be saved if procedures with limited clinical benefits — such as tonsillectomies, varicose vein removal and some hysterectomies — were no longer performed.
William Jacobsen has more and notes that the British media has been unusually vicious about tearing into the NHS.
Also worthy of attention is this great post from Pat Austin. Tom Daschle, the guy who would have been heading up the push for Obamacare if he’d only bothered to pay his taxes, has strapped on his sandwich board of lies and is crying doom from the streetcorner. Pat does a good job of knocking down his tired talking points with very little effort.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Save the Tonsils! Pass Obamacare!
- What We Don’t Know About Obamacare Could Kill Us
- You Know What’d Be Fun? Let’s Tax Pelosi’s Botox to Fund Obamacare!
Category: Health Care Craziness
Thanks for the link!