All posts tagged with socialized medicine

(Natural News) The National Health Service in New England has put a hold on non-urgent health care services, as the state-run healthcare system edges toward collapse. State officials have instructed hospitals across the country to delay non-emergency procedures and only deal with emergency patients first. About 55,000 operations are to be put on hold in […]

(Natural News) Life in Venezuela under the “socialist revolution” of President Nicolas Maduro continues to devolve into a hellish existence, and that is especially true when it comes to basic human needs like nourishment and medical care. To the latter, things are so bad in the South American nation that at any given time, its […]

(Natural News) 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 […]

(Natural News) It may have been one option once upon a time for the country of England, but as its population has grown over the years — and aged, and gotten more unhealthy — costs of running the National Health Service have skyrocketed past the point where the government can adequately fund its needs. And now, […]

(Natural News) Most Left-wing American political figures, entertainers and academics speak highly of the United Kingdom’s socialized medicine system, saying that the U.S. ought to emulate it. But they don’t live there so they don’t really know just how bad it is, and how close it is getting to collapse. In fact, the National Health […]

(Natural News) As the Republican effort to do something about the disaster known as Obamacare ramps up, former Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders is ramping up his own efforts to get more people to support legislation he wrote that calls for full-on socialized medicine. He has said that Americans are just clamoring for his […]

(Natural News) U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who was cheated out of the Democratic Party nomination for president last year by a dishonest political organization, doesn’t believe you, your doctor, or insurance company should have control over your healthcare. He thinks the federal government should. And not just primary control, like we now have with […]

(Natural News) 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 […]

(Natural News) Chemotherapy is no joke. This toxic chemical treatment has debilitating side effects, including anemia, bleeding, infections, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, constipation, hair loss, mouth sores and extreme fatigue, to name just a few. Imagine trying to deal with all that and then being left lying “half-naked” on a hospital gurney in the corridor […]

(Natural News) The U.K. National Health Service is facing a lawsuit from the devastated family of a woman who died after a botched routine operation. The NHS is the country’s socialized, government-run healthcare delivery system. In a horrific scenario, doctors reportedly inserted a replacement heart valve upside down into great grandmother Sheila Hynes, 71, who […]