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UK’s socialized medicine so wonderful that their own doctors turning to private medical care for themselves

The same health care system that the left would force upon us is so dreadful that the UK’s own system doesn’t trust itself to provide quality health care to its own employees.  From the UK:

An NHS trust has spent more than £12,000 on private treatment for hospital staff because its own waiting times are too long. The money was used to bring in physiotherapists to help workers recover from muscular-skeletal injuries at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.

Bosses said it prevented them from leapfrogging NHS patients and enabled them to return to work more quickly.

However, the private treatment, which amounted to £12,116 for 271 appointments over the past year, was described by critics as “shocking”.

Mark Wallace of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Their staff should have to wait like everybody else.  Perhaps if they experienced it as their customers – that is the taxpayer – experienced it, they might be a little keener to improve their waiting times.”

Wow!  Let that sink in for a second.  “Our system sucks so badly that we need to go outside of our own system to make sure that we get the quick and efficient care that we need.  That way, our employees can get back to the business of providing slow and inefficient care to everyone else.”  Only to Euros would that explanation make sense.

October 14, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | Euros, health care, hypocrisy, socialism