Medicare for all??

Take note all you Medicare for all proponents, this is how gov't run healthcare works:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...ncer-treatment

Quote:

Record numbers of patients are not getting vital cancer care on time because NHS England performance against waiting time targets has fallen to its lowest ever level, according to official figures... ...“Tens of thousands of patients and their families are enduring agonising waits, all too aware that a small delay could have a serious impact,” she said.

And it gets better... and by better I mean worse:

Quote:

The King’s Fund also highlighted that growing numbers of patients are having to wait more than six weeks – the supposed limit – to have a CT, MRI scan or X-ray to help doctors diagnose if they have cancer...

Other than the VA, which is the actual Gov't run healthcare org in the US, who has to wait weeks for a CT or an MRI?? Let alone a freaking X-ray?? Six weeks for an X-ray? Crazy...
Maybe a day or two, and usually not even that (my PCP has a 64 slice CT in his office... I need to meet the Siemens sales rep, that guy/gal has them everywhere in my AO).
But if there is Medicare for all somehow, the reality of the UK would become the reality here. See also the VA...

ETA: I guess the BBC updated the numbers. They're even worse:

httphttps://www.bbc.com/news/health-45508622://

Quote:

Patients who are given an urgent referral by their GP are meant to start treatment within 62 days. But in July, 78.2% were seen in that timeframe, the worst performance since records began in October 2009. It means more than 3,000 people waited longer than two months for treatment to begin. The target for the NHS is 85%, which was last hit in December 2015...

And for otherwise routine care:

Quote:

The number of people in England waiting more than 18 weeks for non-urgent operations is actually at the highest level in a decade. Nearly 504,000 were waiting more than the 18-week target time. The total on the waiting list for routine surgery at 4.12 million was the highest since August 2007.

Don't worry Grandma, it'll just be four or five months wait for your surgery... you should be fine being in pain and bed-ridden for that timeframe...

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Medicare for all??