Voice from the Commonwealth Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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At the end of June, 79,943 patients were waiting for hospital treatment - up almost 8,000 from March, an 11 per cent rise. They are also waiting an average of 57 days, a week longer than they were waiting a year ago. In June last year, 73 per cent of patients were seen within 13 weeks. This has now fallen to 68 per cent.
They also provide an alarming picture of the nation’s accident and emergency departments. Almost half of all patients on trolleys waited more than half an hour to be seen by a doctor. At Glasgow Royal Infirmary, more than 75 per cent of trolley cases had to wait longer than half an hour.
With populations that are a mere fraction of America's the UK, Canada, France and Scotland are having immense financial problems supporting this system. Yet every day we hear the cry from the left that it is something we absolutely must do. When their economies finally collapse in the efforts to maintain even this poor level of service will people here finally get it?
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