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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 […]

11/02/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Starving, thirsty, and in pain, U.K. mothers traumatized by postnatal “care”

To say that the state of postnatal care in the U.K. is inadequate is an understatement. “Dismal” might be a more apt descriptor, as it perfectly encapsulates the treatment numerous mothers have receive. What was supposed to be a period of recuperation for these women turned into experiences so horrific that some mothers have been […]

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 […]

09/22/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

NHS refusing services to smokers, obese patients until they go to health boot camp for six months

Obese people, as well as smokers, will be refused of services by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) until they go to a health boot camp for six months to try and lose weight, according to a Daily Mail report. These patients will be referred to the health optimization program of the NHS and […]

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 […]

08/09/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Canada’s single-payer healthcare system is imploding due to skyrocketing costs

We are all immensely grateful that advances in medical treatment mean that people no longer die from easily treatable diseases. Most likely you or someone close to you has had to obtain medical treatment for a serious condition which could have resulted in their death. Indeed, access to healthcare is no longer viewed as a […]

07/25/2017 / By Lance D Johnson

NHS declares total ban on homeopathy and herbal medicine, goes all-in for Big Pharma’s chemical medications that are bankrupting the world

The United Kingdom’s publicly funded healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS), is on the verge of banning homeopathy and herbal medicine. A new consultation document is being sent out to NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to limit the scope of what doctors can prescribe. Instead of cracking down on expensive and side effect-ridden chemical […]

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