Question by Lake: US people are not told the truth about the health care system in the UK (?)?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6018237/Barack-Obama-health-plan-how-US-Right-wing-claims-about-NHS-have-been-answered.html
Claims by US conservatives about the NHS and how President Barack Obama?s health care reforms will be bad for America have been rebutted in Britain.
Allegation: NHS patients over 59 years of age cannot receive heart repairs, stents or bypasses.
Response: A national audit on cardiac surgery showed that one in five of all patients was aged over 75.
Allegation: Ted Kennedy, 77, would not be treated for his brain tumour in Britain because he was too old.
Response: ?The NHS provides health services on the basis of clinical need irrespective of age,? said a Department of Health spokesman.
Urbanitejewelry, an American in Britain, wrote: ?I?m an american in the UK. Had a bad health scare a few months back and was well taken care of, no money involved. incredible.?
Best answer:
Answer by Chibi ? thulhu
i like the one which said if stephen hawkings was born in the uk he wouldn?t be alive good thing he was born in the *drumroll* uk
lolz
the uk papers are actually quite critical of the nhs where it is actually due and praise too, unlike americans who ignorantly deny that something is wrong
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