Healthcare - Why they won't let it go?

Up to 1,200 needless deaths, patients abused, staff bullied to meet targets... yet a secret inquiry into failing hospital says no one's to blame

The administration is making another attempt to implement a Government run Health care Plan for all Americans. Have you wondered why Democratic members of congress continue this suicidal mission in spite of its overwhelming rejection by the American people? The strongest supporters of the DNC are unions and these same unions are owed big favors from the current administration.

Unions have taken over the health care plans for their members and reports indicate that the majority of these union controlled plans have had their funds decimated by graft, financial incompetence and fraud. How can the abuses be hidden forever and how can those who are responsible get a "get out of jail free card"? Simple, a government bailout of course. A government run national health care plan will transfer the responsibility of providing health care for union members from the bankrupt unions themselves to the taxpayers. Problem solved.

The proponents often cite the UK system as the the ideal government run health care system. As the new debate gets underway perhaps we ought to keep in mind how well is it really working out for UK citizens. Below is the results from one of the UK's most 'elite' NHS institutions.

Up to 1,200 needless deaths, patients abused, staff bullied to meet targets... yet a secret inquiry into failing hospital says no one's to blame

• Up to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily because of appalling care
• Labour's obsession with targets and box ticking blamed for scandal
• Patients were 'routinely neglected' at hospital
• Report calls for FOURTH investigation into scandal
• 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. Indeed, some have either retired on lucrative pensions or have swiftly found new jobs.

Former chief executive Martin Yeates, who has since left with a £1million ($1,520,000.00) pension pot, six months' salary and a reported £400,000 ($608,000.00) payoff, did not even give evidence to the inquiry which detailed the scale of the scandal yesterday. He was said to be medically unfit to do so, though he sent some information to chairman Robert Francis through his solicitor. But after a probe that was controversially held in secret, not a single individual has been publicly blamed. 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 blunders
at the hospital;
• Medics discharged patients hastily out of fear they risked being sacked;
• Wards were left filthy with blood, discarded needles and used dressings while bullying managers made whistleblowers too frightened to come forward.

The Francis report said staff numbers were allowed to fall 'dangerously low', causing nurses to neglect the most basic care. It said: 'Requests for assistance to use a bedpan or to get to and from the toilet were not responded to. 'Some families were left to take soiled sheets home to wash or to change beds when this should have been undertaken by the hospital and its staff.' Food and drink were left out of reach, forcing patients to drink water from flower vases.

To read more on this horror story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253438/Mid-Staffordshire-NHS-hospital-routinely-neglected-patients.html