Orange County Register

From Mark Landsbaum 

More eye-popping news from across the sea where the government is deemed to be qualified to run health care. This item from the UK’s Telegraph:

“Scores of premature babies may be dying unnecessarily across England because the NHS [National Health Care System] mismanaged a reform of neonatal units in 2003, parliament’s spending watchdog reveals today.

“Health ministers provided £73m over three years to link up hospital neonatal units in 23 regional networks that could provide specialist services to save premature and low birth weight babies.

“But the National Audit Office finds that the Department of Health did not issue instructions for the units to be adequately staffed. As a result the service was overstretched. Its specialist nursing workforce was nearly 10% below strength. There were not enough cots to respond to every emergency and there was a lack of specialist 24-hour transport to move babies and mothers to other hospitals.”

Oh, the joys of government-run health care. Even the most vulnerable of the vulnerable can’t be protected. Yet there are those here who would like to replace what we’ve got with what the Brits suffer through. Go figure.

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