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The British news Agency, BBC, describes growing physician concern over long wait times and new rationing algorithms designed by politicians desperately trying to cut billions of dollars from the bloated, dysfunctional British National Health Service(NHS). In most areas of Great Britain, patients are waiting longer for elective procedures while their conditions often deteriorate. Physicians are speaking out in increasing numbers since the bureucratic backlog often results in patients experiencing inferior outcomes once they finally have surgery. This is of major concern since the president's choice to direct Medicare and Medicaid while implementing the new healthcare law is none other than Dr. Donald Berwick. Dr. Berwick is the Harvard academic who is "romantic" about the British NHS and admits he wants to replicate its features and rationing mechanisms in the new American healthcare sysem. This is not good news for patients in the long-term if Obamacare is not repealed and replaced with alternative reform proposals..
It's been one year since the president signed the PPACA into law and the doctor has had a chance to examine the patient. Unfortunately, for patients, physicians and the American taxpayor, the diagnosis is grim. Despite all the lofty rhetoric, false projections and empty promises, the new healthcare law has failed to meet almost all it's goals. The good news is there is a treatment available. It is called repeal and replace with patient-centered, physician-led reforms that takes into consideration the perspective and experience of "practicing" physicians, not misinformed and sheltered academics and bureaucrats.
