"HILLARYCARE" IS FAILING IN THE UK

UK GUARDIAN:

Support for pregnant women is being cut because of the NHS's financial troubles, a healthcare charity has warned. The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) says it is receiving "increasing reports" that NHS antenatal classes, breastfeeding services and postnatal visits are being cancelled.

NHS antenatal classes have been cut or suspended in at least 10 areas in England and Wales, according to the NCT. ... An NCT spokeswoman said: "These cuts in maternity services may reflect a more widespread pattern.

"The NCT is concerned that these short-term measures to ease financial deficits are having a negative effect on new parents and parents-to-be, preventing them from getting the information and support they need at this important stage in their lives."

SUNDAY MERCURY (BIRMINGHAM, UK):

Wonder drug NHS bosses can't afford to offer cancer victims

CASH-strapped NHS bosses are denying thousands of Midland kidney cancer patients two new 'wonder drugs' that could prolong their lives.

A Birmingham oncologist has likened the scandal surrounding Sutent and Nexavar to that of breast cancer treatment Herceptin, which was denied to sufferers until a public outcry last year.

Professor Nicholas James revealed that Midland health chiefs are refusing to fund some of his patients with the kidney cancer treatments, licensed for use in Britain last August. Trials have shown that Sutent and Nexavar can offer patients a dramatic improvement in quality of life - and increase life expectancy by two years. That compares favourably to Interferon-alpha, the kidney cancer treatment currently available on the NHS, which lengthens lives by just five months on average.

But Sutent and Nexavar cost £3,000 a month to fund, and have not yet been approved as 'cost-effective' by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).

IF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IS FAILING IN THE UK - THE FIRST EUROPEAN NATION TO NATIONALIZE MOST INDUSTRIES - THEN WHY SHOULD WE TRY IT HERE!?

DO WE REALLY WANT INFERIOR CARE WHICH BANKRUPTS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND FORCES A SPIRAL OF EVER-INCREASING TAXES!? IT MAKES NO SENSE.