[b]Patients “dying in hospital corridors”[/b] http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42572116 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42572110 Was doing a little research. 68 senior doctors sent a newsletter to the prime minister describing details of inhumane conditions that seem to be normal occurrences in NHS’s hospitals. The letter contained some stats and the following details: [i]In December alone over 300,000 patients were made to wait in emergency rooms for more than four hours before being seen, with thousands more suffering long waits in ambulances before even being allowed into the emergency room. The letter further noted that it had become “routine” for patients to be left on gurneys in corridors for as long as 12 hours before being offered proper beds, with many of them eventually being put into makeshift wards hastily constructed in side-rooms. In addition to this, it was revealed that around 120 patients per day are being attended to in corridors and waiting rooms, with many being made to undergo humiliating treatments in the public areas of hospitals, and some even dying prematurely as a result. One patient reported that, having gone to the emergency room with a gynecological problem which had left her in severe pain and bleeding, a lack of treatment rooms led hospital staff to examine her in a busy corridor, in full view of other patients.[/i] > [NHS] First week of 2018, over 97% of its trusts in England reported overcrowding so great, hospitals were deemed “unsafe” The prime minister bitched about the flu being widespread, but is that an excuse to leave dying patients in the hallway? Turns out though that officials from the Public Health England stated the current widespread flu levels are not unprecedented. Maybe, just maybe, Public monopolized health care systems are to blame? Just goes to show how naive the individuals claiming that the only the state can guarantee goods and services to the “public good” and how that justifies force. Sounds like all that is needed is to do is dump [i]even more money into the monopoly…[/i] On Healthcare: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/238884485?sort=0&page=0 Also, in no way am I in favor of a tax funded mass standing army. A large standing army by nature at the hands of the state will always bring along the temptation to use it, in an aggressive, warlike, and interventionist sense. The standing army is inherently authoritarian and inevitably swells the states power, to push other nations around and dominate the internal life of its nation. It is a threat to liberty, with its monopoly on coercive weapons and its constant push the military industrial complex...I reject all tax funded institutions, but the army is unique for its amassing and monopolizing mass weapons and power at the hands of the state.