Single-Payer Hell: Woman in U.K. Denied Ambulance, Gives Birth On Pavement

And this is what Obama wants to bring to the U.S.? Keep in mind also that breast cancer kills 25 percent of its American victims. In Great Britain, breast cancer extinguishes 46 percent of its targets. Prostate cancer is fatal in 19 percent of American cases. It kills 57 percent of Britons that it strikes. Almost 1.3 million people — or the combined populations of Birmingham and Coventry — work for the NHS, which is one of the world’s biggest employers. More bureaucrats than doctors. A bureaucracy that cares about cost rather than the patient. From The Daily Mail via memeorandum: Woman gives birth on pavement ‘after being refused ambulance’

A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there.

But the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100m from her house in Leicester to the city's nearby Royal Infirmary.

Her daughter Mariah was delivered on a pavement outside the hospital by a passer-by, just before ambulance crews arrived.

"I went into the bath and realised she was going to come quickly. I didn't think I'd be able to make it out of the bath, so I phoned the maternity ward back and told them to get an ambulance out.

'They said they were not sending an ambulance and told me I had had nine months to sort out a lift.'

'I thought if I got across the road then at least somebody would be able to help me.

'I left the house and got to the end of the close, but there was no-one around to help.'

Eventually Ms Blake and her friends enlisted the help of a physiotherapist who happened to be passing on her way to work.

She dialled 999 and helped deliver baby Mariah while waiting for emergency services.

'It's just lucky that the physio was there.'

Today a spokeswoman for the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said: 'We are disappointed that Ms Blake was not happy with the advice and care she received and will of course investigate any complaint.

THEY are disappointed? With the 'advice' that she received? You mean the "can't you walk lady?" advice? While she's in labor?

Just keep in mind that the NHS in the U.K. "serves" a population of only 60 million. What would Obamacare look like with a population of 307 million? 1.3 million multiplies by 5. Obamacare would employ about 7 million people. It would make Britains NHS, the Chinese army and Indian rail pale by comparison - combined! What a monstrosity it would be. As with NHS, it would be topheavy, inefficient, and absolutely would have to lead to rationing of care. Not for government officials, but rather the little people. For the majority of the population, we will have to put up with absurdities like these (HT: Doug Ross @Journal):

Fury after hospital sends heart attack mum home to die: 8/3/2009 [Daily Record]

NHS 'failings' over elderly falls: 3/25/2009 [BBC]
Learning disabled 'failed by NHS': 3/24/2009 [BBC]
Cancer survivor confronts the health secretary on 62-day wait: 3/21/2009 [The Scotsman]

Culture of targets prevents nurses from tending to patients: Patients Association, 3/21/2009 [Telegraph UK]
Children being failed by health system, says head of watchdog: Sarah Boseley, 3/21/2009 [Guardian Unlimited]
Our cancer shame: Survival rates still lag behind EU despite spending billions: 3/20/2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

Failing hospital 'caused deaths': 3/17/2009 [BBC]
Health gap drive 'wasted money': 3/14/2009 [BBC]
Longer GP opening hours branded wasteful 'PR exercise' by doctors: 3/13/2009 [The Scotsman]

"Political meddling" threatens general practice, warns GP leader: 3/13/2009 [Management in Practice (UK)]
Children at risk through lack of training for doctors and nurses, report warns: 3/13/2009 [Telegraph UK]
Chocolate should be taxed to control obesity epidemic, doctors are told: 3/13/2009 [Telegraph UK]

1,000 wait for a dentist after just one NHS practice opens: 3/10/2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]
Study proves the folly of NHS Alzheimer's drug ban: 3/7/2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]
NHS charges to rise in England: 3/5/2009 [BBC]

Disabled children wait up to two years for wheelchairs: 3/4/2009 [Guardian Unlimited]
NHS under fire over waiting times: 2/25/2009 [The Scotsman]
Specialist nurses 'vastly overworked': 2/20/2009 [Harwich & Manningtree Standard]

Hundreds of operations cancelled at Lothian hospitals: 2/19/2009 [The Scotsman]
Stop asking for antibiotics to cure coughs and colds, Government tells patients: 2/17/2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]
Stroke services are 'UK's worst' : 2/17/2009 [BBC]

Hospitals curb caesarean births: 2/15/2009 [The Times]

For a first-hand perspective of NHS care, read this over at Pajamas Media: British Health Service: A National Disgrace.

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