Single payer healthcare in UK puts seven million patients at risk

Times:
Seven million patients are treated at GP surgeries with serious safety problems, according to the first comprehensive review.

Inspectors urged patients to switch to better performing surgeries after finding that one in seven had issues with safety and one in ten was not good enough overall.

They uncovered “pockets of persistent poor care” including out-of-date medicines, a failure to follow up on test results, delayed cancer diagnoses and a lack of checks on the medical qualifications of staff.
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Bernie Sanders and the Democrats who support his single payer scheme need to pay them a visit before he tries to impose the same system in the US.   It appears the UK is having teh same problem with their single payer plan that the US has with the VA.

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