Pay into the NHS all your life, then, at 80 you are too old to get broken arm fixed...

[2aguy]

Yep......the NHS is not free healthcare...you pay for it your entire life, and when you need it most...it fails you...

Coming to America under universal healthcare.....

Hospital tells 83-year-old pensioner she is too OLD for treatment | Daily Mail Online

Health chiefs have been forced to apologise after an 83-year-old woman was turned away from a hospital for being too old.

Susan Halbert, 83, from Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire, fell outside her home and broke her arm in two places.

Paramedics were called and took her to Glasgow’s New Victoria Hospital, but she was told doctors would not see her because she was over 65.

The pensioner was then taken to A&E at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where, after a four-hour wait, she was given a splint and sent home.

The New Victoria has a minor injuries unit which is equipped to deal with limb injuries.

Mrs Halbert, who is still wearing a brace on her arm, said: ‘I’ve never experienced anything like it. The paramedics were lovely. They came straight away and couldn’t be more helpful. Unfortunately that didn’t continue.

‘They took me to the Victoria and we went inside, only for the receptionist to explain that I couldn’t be seen because I was over the age of 65.

‘Rather than be able to go and help other people, the paramedics instead had to take me to the Queen Elizabeth, which was so busy I had to wait four hours to be triaged and another two hours to be treated.’

Mrs Halbert, added: ‘The paramedics were as stunned as I was. They even told me they had never heard of someone being too old for treatment before.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

Socialist rationing at its best.

 

[Tax Man]

This sounds like a Trumped up story!!!

 

[Kaykan]

This sounds like a Trumped up story!!!

Daily Mail.
'Nuf said.

 

[gtopa1]

Sounds pathetic at face value but then there was this:

"The New Victoria has a minor injuries unit which is equipped to deal with limb injuries.".

It is possible that injuries(breaks) in over-65s could be seen as "Major" rather than "minor" injuries as a matter of course. More to the story no doubt; Daily Mail is a shitrag.

Greg

 

[Vagabond63]

Yep......the NHS is not free healthcare...you pay for it your entire life, and when you need it most...it fails you...

More BS from our favourite NRA schill. No one ever said we have "free health care", the first National Insrance scheme was introduced in 1911, as a basic insurance safety net to help tide people over who had lost their jobs, were ill, or who experienced finacial hardship in retirement. It was expanded after the second world war in 1948. Although the percentage changes from time to time, roughly 22-25% of NI contributions go to the NHS, most of the rest goes into the state pension fund (94% of the remainder) and to pay for unemployment benefits (6%). The whole point of our healthcare system is that it is "free at the point of delivery for everyone". Personally I don't mind paying NI so that someone else can benefit, because someone else will have paid for me to use the system if and when I need it.

The system is under threat every time we get a Conservative/right wing regime in power, who want to "privatise" the system so their cronies in the insurance/private health care industry can make huge profits.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

The OP is an expert at twisting every story to suit his narrative.

So a badly written report in the UKs most dishonest rag becomes a condemnation of our health service. Because .....socialism.