Universal Healthcare Leaves Man Severely Brain Damaged

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-11595485

Another satisfied subject?

That wasn't the fault of a UHC. It's the fault of a negligent nurse.

WTF is a tetrapalegic? Do Brits have more limbs than the rest of the world? If so, you have way bigger problems than I ever realized!

Tetra = 4. Tetraplegic and quadriplegic are the same thing. It's just that one comes from a Greek root and one from a Latin root.

Yeah, I don't know why they use that term. However, the Wikipedia article even mentions that it's sometimes called "tetraplegic", so some sector of something somewhere considers it the correct term.

Para would be two limbs. Quadra or Tetra would be four.

Not that I'm a fan of UHC or anything, but that's a fuck-up that could happen anywhere.

It is, indeed.

I tend to look at UHC as the best choice for people who need a king to lead them even at the basics of life, like health care.

"It also left a man's body lying on the floor next to his own severed head. A head which at this time has no name..."

Those kind of people are also working for the NHS already so your point is pointless........

Actually, this person doesn't work directly for the NHS. The job has been outsourced, like so much else in the NHS these days. The NHS is being badly eroded - privatised bit by bit.

You're missing the point.......

I didn't say this incompetent nurse worked for the NHS. I was simply pointing out that Dan Leach's implication that NHS nurses wouldn't have done this is false. We can all look up NHS nurses being fuckups.

There are fuckups everywhere. In private business and in the NHS.

I think the point is that both the NHS as well as private healthcare firms both employ from the same pool of talent.

In others words, this shithead has most likely a just-as-stupid counterpart that DOES work for the NHS.

In fact it wouldn't surprise me if this shitty nurse started out with the NHS!

Yeah, I know that too.

Then what was the point of your post?

To point out the separate issue of the NHS being gradually privatised...

Ambition 24 has been supplying nurses to the NHS since 1996.

Not only that, this poor man was complaining to the NHS that the care he was receiving was inadequate and he was concerned and they ignored him. The NHS was just as incompetent here as that shit nurse was.

I'm glad he was smart enough to install a camera...although it is absolute madness it's been two years and nothing has been done because no one "takes responsibility" for the "mistake" when the whole thing is documented.

Also not a great fan of universal health care, but this isn't a good example of anything specific to UHC. A nurse screwed up major, that's about the extent of it.

You guys aren't falling into my troll very well at all.

Well, it could be argued that it's easier to change private insurance providers than it is to opt out of a mandatory government program when something like this happens.

Realizing, of course, that this was a private sub-contractor, but contracted and poorly-monitored by the government program.

How do malpractice suits work over there? Can his family sue the private contractor into destitution, or are they forced to take on the entire fucking UHC bureaucracy in court because the contractor is somehow shielded from direct liability? Sounds like a tougher time holding incompetent shitheels accountable.

...whose incompetence was subsidized by a UHC system.

FTFY.

That's why there are absolutely zero negligent health care lawsuits in the US.

Jackass.

Why do you think what I said would only be valid if there were "absolutely zero negligent health care lawsuits in the US"?

Anyway, equating our lawsuits with anyone else's is dubious. Our tort system is a money machine, and everybody's negligent here if there's money in it for a lawyer somewhere.

The paramedics should have done him a favor and just left it off. I am going to google tetra palegic to see what that is. Tetra means four and so its probably the same as quadrapalegic. I would go fucking insane in a week, God help him.