Heart Health

According to a recent study by the Cato Institute of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), there is no perfect scenario when it comes to health care.  On one side of the spectrum is the desire to have unlimited medical care to extend one’s life as much as possible, and the other end of the spectrum is to ration care to control spending.

The NHS is a centralized government version of the one-payer system in England, and it pays directly for health care and finances the system through general tax revenues.  Most physicians and nurses are government employees.  Below are some key statistics to keep in mind when looking at a government system without competition.

Waiting Times. Presently as many as three quarters of a million Britons are waiting to be treated in Britain’s hospitals. Cancer patients, for example, will wait as long as eight months before being treated.… Read More…

Against the backdrop of expensive health care costs, the Americans would not be better off if they are for socialized medicine?

Not so, according to a recent study by the Cato Institute of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). There is no perfect scenario when it comes to health care. On one side of the spectrum is the desire to unlimited medical care, their own lives as much as possible and the other end of the spectrum is rationed to extend to haveTo control> care spending.

The NHS is a central government version of the single-payer system in England and it pays directly for health care and finances of the system through general tax revenues. Most doctors and nurses are government employees.

What can we learn from Britain’s health care?

1. Long waits

* Currently, no less than three quarters of a million Britons are waiting to be treated in… Read More…

Lower back pain is one of the most common health problems around the world and healthcare professionals are continuously reviewing how best to treat it. Putting aside the individual for a moment, millions of productive hours are lost in the workplace and, with the loss of earnings that represents, there are serious implications for national economies as many find their ability to work restricted or completely finished. This puts pressure on national agencies to set best practice standards to keep the majority of adults in productive work.

Although the UK often gets a bad press for its National Health Service (NHS), one of the more successful features of the service is the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). This agency is responsible for co-ordinating national healthcare planning and directing individual agencies through clinical guidelines. It reviews all the available scientific information to decide which treatments are sufficiently cost-effective… Read More…