MORE PROOF SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE SUCKS: IN IRELAND, 1500 WAIT FOR SURGERY FOR OVER A YEAR

IRISH TIMES:

More than 1,500 patients across the State were waiting over 12 months for surgery at the end of last year, according to a newly published report.

The latest annual report from the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) points out that while this is a reduction on the numbers who were waiting at the end of 2007 it is "unacceptable" that patients are still waiting over a year for treatment at a small number of hospitals.

Pat O'Byrne, chief executive of the NTPF, named three hospitals in particular with the longest waiters as Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin; Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin and Limerick Regional Hospital. These hospitals accounted for 42 per cent of the patients waiting over 12 months for treatment, he said.

Meanwhile he pointed out that the NTPF, which was set up in 2002 to arrange private care for public patients waiting more than three months for treatment, has now arranged treatment for more than 150,000 patients.

PUBLIC CARE SUCKS - AND THE SOLUTION IS MORE PRIVATE CARE.

YET OBAMA WANTS TO EMULATE THE NATIONALIZED SYSTEMS OVER THERE.

DON'T BE DUPED.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.