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‘You had 9 months to sort out a lift’

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  August 19th, 2009 at 01:31 PM  | 

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[via DrudgeReport]
[inspired by Lori...aka SnarkandBoobs]

Woman gives birth on pavement ‘after being refused ambulance”

Seriously…that was a headline from the Daily Mail Online. As we all know the U.K. has a single payer health care system, similar to what President Obama, Barney Frank and many others in Congress envision for our Nation in the long term.

Now I don’t want to be an alarmist so I had better look at more of the article…catch you below the fold.

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.

Ok I know what you are probably thinking…100 meters isn’t that far to walk. This may be true, but imagine yourself trying to walk 100 meters with a case of extremely explosive diarrhea, kinda like what comes out of Joe Biden’s mouth. Might as well be a marathon.

Today the Trust that runs the hospital said it would look into any complaint made about the advice and care the 27-year-old received.

This Trust would be the equivalent to the Public Option or Co-op if you speak newspeak.

I phoned up the Royal Infirmary, it’s just across the road, and they said to go into a hot bath, and then to make my way over there.

So a woman is in labor and calls the hospital and they say take a hot bath and then we will see you when you get here. I can’t confirm this but I hear they also suggested she rub some dirt on it.

Moving on…

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.

That’s right…put that free health care to work!!

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

Wait…what? Sorry…no ambulance for you. I wonder what metric was used to deny emergency services to a woman in labor.

Ms Blake said despite the happy ending she was upset she was told to make her own way to the hospital as, being an experienced mum, she knew she did not have the time

Ms. Blake seems to be confused…she must think she controls her health care…crazy talk. After all, she couldn’t even be trusted to “sort out a lift” given 9 months of prep time.

We are disappointed that Ms Blake was not happy with the advice and care she received and will of course investigate any complaint. We are pleased that both Ms Blake and her daughter are well and healthy.

That closing paragraph is a double edge blow off if I have ever seen one. First they take no responsibility and then act as if they had something to do with Ms Blake and her new daughter’s healthy outcome.

Make no mistake…this is our future if the statists in this country get their way.

Aaron B. Gardner

Crossposted at my blog


P.S. A friend of mine, Caleb Howe, brought up a great point.

In the United States, if she were uninsured … SHE’D STILL HAVE BEEN GIVEN AMBULANCE AND EMERGENCY CARE.

Just sayin’

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  • Finrod

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1207371/Father-turned-away-hospital-pregnant-wife-delivers-baby-bathroom-floor–saves-daughters-life.html

    Tony and wife Rebecca, 33, were staying in Wilmslow, Cheshire, when she started having contractions.

    They rushed to St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester, but Rebecca was told she wasn’t ready, despite being 38 weeks into the pregnancy.

    The couple, of Newbury, Berkshire, went back to the house – but three hours later, Rebecca was doubled up in pain on the bathroom floor.

    Tony said he called the hospital to ask what to do and could not get any response.

    These articles are making me wonder if any babies in the UK are actually delivered in hospitals.

  • Aaron Gardner
  • Warrior

    was obliged to pony up every pound of tax required by the state, down to the last farthing. But when she needs a lift across the street because her water is about to burst, hey, can’t you take care of yourself? This is what happens when bureaucrats with ABSOLUTELY NO INCENTIVE to care about you start making critical decisions about your healthcare.

    Good on ‘ya AG for spotlighting our future under OBAMACARE…

  • Aaron Gardner
  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    …but it’ll show up longer if it stays in the Rec list.

  • Aaron Gardner

    I appreciate both the fact that you would promote and the fact that it is best suited on the Reco’d list…;^)

  • penguin2

    The people of this country have no idea of the Nanny State England is. The government has it’s hand in every aspect of the individual’s life, including from birth. H.R. 3200 has provisions in it for prenatal and “child welfare” visits. People need to be very wary about this.

    The family is already under assault in this country by the well-meaning liberals. If this bill passes; the government will be telling parents how to raise their children, but also monitoring that you are doing it the governments way. Far worse intrusion than what occurs now.

  • gahazzah

    If she were an illegal alien in America she could go to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Tx and be one of over 11,000 illegal immigrants to get taxpayer funded care at that hospital alone (not to mention all the others around the country).

    The UK/Canada cannot even take care of their own and yet we’re supposed to take care of the world. Amazing how math works out over on the statist’s calculators.

  • Aaron Gardner

    the more you have to cover the more they have to budget the more they have to tax…eventually you become a slave of the state. All your “needs” are met so you must be happy…or else.

  • Flagstaff

    fourteen “myths” about either President Obama, his knowledge, his health plans, HR 3200, etc.

    MYTH 1: There is no health care crisis
    MYTH 2: Health care reform will impose rationing
    MYTH 3: Health care reform provides for euthanasia, “death panel”
    MYTH 4: Health care reform legislation will cover undocumented immigrants
    MYTH 5: Health care reform will raise your taxes
    MYTH 6: Health proposals would tax all small businesses
    MYTH 7: Health care reform would add $1 trillion-plus to deficit
    MYTH 8: House bill would ban private individual insurance
    MYTH 9: Obama said he didn’t read House bill
    MYTH 10: Co-ops are an adequate substitute for a public option
    MYTH 11: Obama is pushing a system like the U.K. and Canada
    MYTH 12: Obama, Dems pushing “socialized medicine”
    MYTH 13: Prominent opponents of health care reform are credible
    MYTH 14: Government can’t run a health care program.

    This list was presented by a commenter to The Swamp blog, and quickly refuted (as a list) by a respondent on the same page. MediaMatters goes into great detail in their selective debunking diatribe, in some cases passing out Kool-Aid, but all-in-all, it just illustrated a few salient facts.

    A 1,000+ page bill can say a many things. Many of them are open to interpretation. Some of them need interpretation in the context of the real world, including who will be administering the prescriptions of the bill, and what the President has previously said are his beliefs on the subject. We must all know that people act on their beliefs.

    Using one word in place of another, even if it’s a close synonym, can change the meaning greatly, and it can be used by one party to discredit another, whether right or not. This is called spin. One example: crisis equals problem. This technique doesn’t really debunk a “myth,” it deflects it. Spin also uses straw men and red herrings. Watch for them.

    The most important fact, however, is seldom mentioned. Because of this fact, even if every argument trotted forth by MediaMatters were 100% true, it wouldn’t matter. That fact is, whatever this bill might say when enacted, it will put the government into the position of being able to do plenty of things to our health system that it can’t do now. And what the government can do, it eventually will do. That’s why, for example, Obama’s statements about the process taking years to achieve a single payer system, are key. They make his intentions and beliefs clear, no matter what the bill says.

    The way to analyze this bill is not by parsing its words, but by recognizing that it’s setting a course and determining what that course is. So far, the opposition has been doing that job fairly well. We need to keep it up, and to do it explicitly when necessary.

  • Flagstaff

    I meant to link The Swamp for you.