As previously noted, government-run health care schemes like the Much Vaunted National Health System© have never really managed to rein in health care costs:
"It's kind of funny that their data actually shows real socialized medicine (UK NHS) has annualized cost growth higher than that in the US."
But co-blogger Mike tells us that they're at least trying (for certain values of "try"):
"Health leaders have written to Justice Secretary David Gauke urging him to reform the payout system for negligence claims against the NHS."
Seems that all those (costly) mistakes (such as leaving patients "dying prematurely in corridors") have begun to add up. A pound here, a pound there, and pretty soon you're talking real money:
"It's kind of funny that their data actually shows real socialized medicine (UK NHS) has annualized cost growth higher than that in the US."
But co-blogger Mike tells us that they're at least trying (for certain values of "try"):
"Health leaders have written to Justice Secretary David Gauke urging him to reform the payout system for negligence claims against the NHS."
Seems that all those (costly) mistakes (such as leaving patients "dying prematurely in corridors") have begun to add up. A pound here, a pound there, and pretty soon you're talking real money:
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Yikes!
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