Once again, Democrats cause a problem then blame others for the problem. Healthcare.

[jacksonlamb]

The NHS is facing its deepest structural crisis in history, characterized by record-high waiting lists, crumbling physical infrastructure, and chronic understaffing. While health officials stopped short of declaring total failure, the official Covid-19 inquiry concluded that the health service "only just coped" during the pandemic and operated on the brink of collapse.
YouTube·Doctor Khalid +4
The crisis stems from several systemic issues:

• Soaring Waiting Times:Routine and specialist care backlogs remain exceptionally high, with millions waiting for operations and extended waits in A&E departments regularly hitting record highs.
  The Conversation
• Infrastructure Failure:The independent Darzi investigation revealed that the NHS estate is "literally crumbling". Victorian-era buildings and a maintenance backlog exceeding £11 billion heavily impact primary care operations.
  The BMJ
• Workforce Drain:Long-term underfunding, physician burnout, and wage disputes have driven clinical staff out of the system, leading to high vacancy rates and heavy reliance on temporary workers.
  YouTube·Doctor Khalid
• Social Care Interdependency:The collapse of the social care sector means many hospital beds are occupied by patients who are medically fit to leave but lack support packages to go home, creating severe bottlenecks.
  YouTube·Doctor Khalid +1

For more information on the official independent findings, you can read the British Medical Association (BMA) deep crisis statement or explore the systemic assessment in the BMJ feature on crumbling NHS buildings.
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• UK Health System (NHS) is Collapsing - An NHS Doctor's ...
  Mar 16, 2025 — because I think the people that are still within the NHS. are just like I'm trying to think of a good. example. they're basically ...
  10:37
  YouTube·Doctor Khalid
• Covid inquiry: Patients harmed as pandemic brought NHS ...
  Mar 19, 2026 — Patients were harmed as the NHS was on the brink of collapse in the UK during the pandemic, the Covid inquiry says. The third repo...
  BBC
• NHS was 'on brink of collapse' during pandemic, Covid inquiry ...
  Mar 19, 2026 — Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent. Thu 19 Mar 2026 11.12 EDT. The NHS “teetered on the brink of collapse” during the Cov...
  The Guardian

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We are not UK.

 

[80zephyr]

This is comparing us to other countries...

But never the guys that do health care as good or better than us. In South Korea situations that don't require a hospital are walk in with waits about 30 minutes.

I used to ask people to get real, then one day I figured out they can't.

Dozens of countries have socialized healthcare, and you only cite South Korea. Why is that?

 

[jacksonlamb]

Dozens of countries have socialized healthcare, and you only cite South Korea. Why is that?

Why not?

 

[80zephyr]

Why not?

One success among dozens of failures does not inspire confidence.