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The sad truth of government health care:

Patients ‘routinely neglected’ at NHS hospital where hundreds died in squalor

Not a single official has been disciplined over the worst-ever NHS hospital scandal, it emerged last night.

Up to 1,200 people lost their lives needlessly because Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust put government targets and cost-cutting ahead of patient care.

But none of the doctors, nurses and managers who failed them has suffered any formal sanction…

…The inquiry found that:

• Patients were left unwashed in their own filth for up to a month as nurses ignored their requests to use the toilet or change their sheets;

• Four members of one family. including a new-born baby girl. died within 18 months after of blunders at the hospital;

• Medics discharged patients hastily out of fear they risked being sacked for delaying;

• Wards were left filthy with blood, discarded needles and used dressings while bullying managers made whistleblowers too frightened to come forward.

I’ll try to explain this to you liberals one more time:

A national health care system is going to be run by regular folks – not by a collection of saints willing to sacrifice themselves for the comfort of others.

Now, if you get your ultimate wish – which is some sort of single-payer program; with ObamaCare just being a down payment – you’ll have our hospitals run by government bureaucrats who simply won’t be able to devote full effort to patient care. It will be a matter of choosing between patient care and giving a pay raise to that annoying union always threatening a strike – as the patients aren’t dying in the bureaucrat’s office, while the union rep is there all the time, it is a natural thing that the patients will get it in the shorts.

Meanwhile, at the front end of health care, the actual workers can use self-sacrificial zeal in treating everyone who walks through the door, or they can realize that they’ll get paid the same no matter if they see one patient or one hundred in a day. So, guess how many they’ll see? As few as possible, of course. And, needless to say, where is the upside on keeping conditions good for the patients – you won’t get extra pay for doing it, and its not like you’ll be fired if you don’t.

Each socialized medicine scheme breaks down upon the rock of human nature. It doesn’t matter how much thought you give to it or how much money you lavish upon it, the thing won’t work. The only way to make for a good health care service is to have that service dependent upon providing good care in order to attract and retain customers – and that means a private system.

UPDATE: And here’s a video collection of Democrats from Obama on down denouncing GOP efforts to circumvent the filibuster back when. There is no bottom for them – no matter how low they are in the gutter, they always manage to find one more step down.