Yes, I like and respect Palin too – hope she continues to freak all the liberals out:)

I’ve been watching Sarah Palin’s news conference…in it she said something about Americans being apathetic and falling in line. Your hairdresser is the personification of that apathy.

Speaking of Sarah…let me be the first to stand by her! I respect her just as much now as before. Looking forward to the thread on this.

I totally agree with you about the hospital care – when I lived in the UK, I went to get an endoscopy (tube down the throat) and was told “you will do fine without anesthesia.” Just a numbing spray on the throat, right? Was I stupid, I said okay, fine. They strapped my arms down and let me tell you, it was a traumatic experience!! I was crying horribly and shocked for days. When I told a gastroentologist here in the U.S. about it, he insisted on telling his nurses about my “medieval experience.”

Yes, that’s what’s coming, folks, if Obama gets his way. And I know we have horrible county hospitals (like the Martin Luther King hospital in L.A. that was closed), but that will be nothing compared to what we will get all over the country. And my hairdresser said to me, “that will never happen here!” Huh.

Sad isn’t it?

That’s right––crowded wards only, not the semi-private rooms or critical care rooms that are found in American hospitals. Most Americans would be shocked at the crowded conditions in NHS hospitals, the lack of privacy and lack of care.

jobeth: “Now add to that mix all the families coming in to visit their family and friends…bringing all their own health issues to share with the already weakened patients.”

So true. And add to that the Muslim visitors who refuse to use the hand sanitary dispensaries because they contain alcohol.

jobeth: “I don’t remember ever seeing the daily routine cleaning either.”

Yes, and do you ever remember seeing the doctors come through the ward?

NHS is a fine system so long as you are relatively young and fit and there is nothing seriously wrong with you. But if you have a real problem, then good luck, mate!

They only have wards with about 10 patients in the area of possibly 1 1/2 rooms here in the states. Think about that.

Patient in the next bed has a cold…guess how many get it…when they are already in a weaken state. With that much over crowding and never a bed empty…stuff everywhere…just how much cleaning can they do? That ward was on the other side of a 3/4 high wall that housed just as many women. Think of the play day all those germs and viruses had jumping that wall between the two wards. That’s at least 20 people trapped withing an area of about 3 hospital rooms in the US.

Now add to that mix all the families coming in to visit their family and friends…bringing all their own health issues to share with the already weakened patients.

Oddly…(sarc)… Dad contracted some kind of bug and so he “took up” a private isolation room for the 6 wks it took for him to starve to death. How inconsiderate of him!

And like the story…I don’t remember ever seeing the daily routine cleaning either. We spent a LOT of time with dad so we should have seen it.

One more interesting thing. During this past year I had to have a short stay of 3 days in our local hospital. It wasn’t fancy…just an ordinary room…but did happen to be private as are all the rooms in this hospital.

My Brit husband came in and I noticed him sitting there…looking all around….When I asked him what he was looking at…his answer was….”How did you rank a room like this?” That says volumes about the hospitals there. He had no idea what the inside of the average US hospitals are like.

On my first trip over…my sister in law…knowing I worked in a hospital…proudly took me to her nearby hospital when she needed to see a doc about her daughter. umm.

They just don’t know the difference at all over there, for the most part.

Having said all that…the US has it’s share of nasty hospitals. And as Steve said…more of the same “coming to a hospital near you” !

“Only the strongest survive the system. If any of you value your life, learn to take care of yourself.”

It’s government-induced natural selection! ‘Breeding the humanity of the future – hopefully we get X-men before China’ -new United States of Entertainment slogan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....tists.html

If any of you value your life, learn to take care of yourself.

Wanna control healthcare costs? Get a group of RN’s & CNA’s in a room. They’ll tell ya. I know. I lived it helping my Dad through his last years. Only the strong survive the system.

Hospital worker may have exposed thousands to hepatitis C.

(worker, not employee, btw)

It’s common knowledge that it isn’t the operation or disease that kills patients in American hospitals in this advanced and modern age …. it’s the inability to keep these places clean enough to prevent the immediate spread of non-combatable contagions. MRSA is only one example. \

But nationalize our healthcare system and the janitorial staff will be public servants.

What more chilling thought could there be but illegal aliens as civil servants?