Return to Conservative.org

Reality Check: Socialized Medicine in Action

Ambulance waiting times in parts of England ‘off the scale’

The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is “off the scale”, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2020 Report

Canada’s health-care wait times hit 22.6 weeks in 2020—longest ever recorded.

Industry Voices—Canada’s cautionary tale on ‘Medicare for All’

Progressives will no doubt continue to tout Canada’s single-payer system as an ideal model for us in the U.S. But, Sally Pipes argues, the reality is far different. (Shutterstock)

More than 20,000 cancer patients miss out on radiotherapy every year because the NHS doesn’t refer them for it, report claims

A report by MPs on the ‘secret scandal’ of radiotherapy said cancer patients were being denied the treatment because it was seen as an expensive option for the NHS (stock image)

Doctors forced to ‘ration’ ICU care due to lack of beds and staff

Stock image

Survey reveals Canadian health-care concerns

Canada has one of the most expensive universal health-care systems in the world.

Patients take flight: Albertans look elsewhere to avoid surgery wait times

Local Input~ ©1998 EyeWire, Inc. Surgery, hospital, tools, mediacl, gown, doctor, nurse, team, operation clinic CREDIT GETTY IMAGES

WAIT TIMES PUSH MORE CANADIANS ABROAD FOR TREATMENT

Cuba, the Healthcare Darling of the International Left, Is Running Out of Medicine

YAMIL LAGE/AFP/Getty Images

‘Medicare for All’ proponents should heed Canada’s health-care woes

Hong Kong hospital crisis: overcapacity, overworked doctors — and peak flu season will make it worse

Patients wait to be sent to a ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital amid overcrowded conditions. Photo: Sam Tsang

Hospital shortages a death sentence for Venezuelan children

Gilberto Altuve (C), father of 11-year-old boy Erick Altuve, who died of cancer while waiting for a bone marrow transplant in Venezuela, mourns during his funeral

Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals

Broken incubators on the maternity floor of Luis Razetti Hospital, where seven newborns died one recent day.

Canada’s health-care wait times hit new record high, again

Long wait times have become the defining characteristic of Canadian health care

N.H.S. Overwhelmed in Britain, Leaving Patients to Wait

The emergency ward at King’s College hospital in London. Over the past week, hospitals have increasingly declared “black alerts,” an admission that they are unable to cope with demand.

Half of Italy ‘rationing’ health care due to economic crisis

More than half, or 53%, of Italians report that they are rationing their health care due to financial difficulties, with the highest numbers in southern Italy, at 59%, according to a report released on Friday by the Unisalute division of Unipol Group, Italy’s second-largest insurance company.

Finnish Government Collapses Due to Rising Cost of Universal Health Care

Resigned Finnish Prime Minister and leader of the Center Party Juha Sipila / Getty Images

Rationing care is a fact of life for the NHS

Some CCGs are making explicit rationing decisions, such as refusing to carry out a caesarean section simply because the woman has requested it. Photograph: HO/EPA

Socialized Healthcare Cruelty: UK Government Rations Eye Surgeries, Leaving ‘Thousands’ to Go Blind

Source: AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File

Lines before dawn, violence and ‘no trust’: China’s health care crisis

Patients wait at dawn for the outpatient ward to open at Peking Union Hospital in Beijing. China is trying to relieve its overwhelmed health care system by introducing more family doctors, but in a country where people rush to hospitals for a fever, change won’t be easy. Source: The New York Times

China’s Health Care Crisis: Lines Before Dawn, Violence and ‘No Trust’

Dr. Ye Minghao, a family practitioner in Shanghai, sees up to 80 patients a day. He enjoys his work, he said, but is unhappy about the lack of respect for his field. Credit: Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times

Canadians Are One In A Million — While Waiting For Medical Treatment

Source: Shutterstock

If American Healthcare Kills, European Healthcare Kills More

The justification for moving to a socialized healthcare system like those in Europe is preventable deaths, but the numbers don’t bear that out.

Russia’s Bad Health Care System Is Getting Worse

A patient walks with a relative at the Palliative care center of the Moscow Healthcare Department. VALERY SHARIFULIN/TASS/GETTY

Thousands more patients made to ‘beg for treatment’ as NHS rations hip operations, investigation finds

Patients recommended for surgery by GP increasingly rejected by cash-strapped NHS groups ( Rex )

‘Patients who should live are dying’: Greece’s public health meltdown

A nurse in an Athens hospital. Many doctors and nurses in Greece work overtime to keep the system afloat. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

Hyderabad Debates Health Insurance Model As Public Hospitals Decay

A person, injured in the bomb blast, at a hospital in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, on Feb. 21. Credit Mahesh Kumar A/Associated Press

Socialized medicine update: Britain cancels 50,000 surgeries as NHS hospitals face winter crisis

The British government-run National Health Service has abruptly canceled 50,000 nonemergency surgeries due to overcrowding at hospitals this winter. (AP Photo)

PATIENTS FACE LONG DELAYS FOR ROUTINE OPERATIONS BECAUSE OF NHS ‘RATIONING’

Once routine operations like cataract removal now need to go through an extra layer of red tape ( Rex )