Okay, I may have gone too far when I compared North Korean health care with Obamacare. Or maybe not. Nobody complained but then again, nobody reads this blog.
Anyway, another cautionary tale for the world of universal health care. In the U.K., the health care system is having a "cash crisis" leaving patients to suffer. The U.K. Telegraph reports:
Women in labour have been forced to wait while epidural equipment was borrowed from other hospitals, while other patients have been denied chest drains and radiology supplies, according to doctors at South London Healthcare Trust.
Minutes of a meeting between medical staff and the trust’s chief executive say “cash flow” problems at the trust which has a £50 million deficit, mean vital equipment is regularly not ordered . . .
Minutes of a meeting of the medical staff committee of Princess Royal University Hospital in Bromley say managers acknowledged that “crude measures” introduced to cut spending had affected clinical supplies, meaning that stocks had run out when they were needed.
So, the government-run health care system ran out of cash, couldn't afford supplies, and patients suffered.
When the government decides what's spent on health care, and not the market, this is the kind of situation you have.
And that is the slippery slope Obamacare is leading us to.


