The Joys of Britain’s Single-Payer Health Care
20th May 2015
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Something is rotten in the NHS: Julie Mellor, the UK’s Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, has released a report finding that “hundreds of thousands” die in miserable circumstances because the NHS’s end-of-life care can be “appalling.” The report, which draws on the complaints of family members, describes a system in which palliative care is neglected, medication administered incorrectly, and the dying go unserved because of state mandated limits on working hours.