Headlines from UK about their great NHS...National Health Service

You might want to copy this, and send it to your Congressman and Senator - every single day until they vote on Socialized Medicine.

* Kidney cancer patients denied life-saving drugs by NHS rationing body NICE

- April 29, 2009 [Daily Mail (UK)]

* Girl, 3, has heart operation cancelled three times because of bed shortage

- David Rose, April 23, 2009 [Times Online]

* Number of children going to hospital to have teeth pulled soars by 66% since 1997

- Daniel Martin and Cher Thornhill, April 12, 2009 [Daily Mail (UK)]

* NHS 'failings' over elderly falls

- March 25, 2009 [BBC]

* Learning disabled 'failed by NHS'

- Nick Triggle, March 24, 2009 [BBC]

* Cancer survivor confronts the health secretary on 62-day wait

- Lyndsay Moss, March 21, 2009 [The Scotsman]

* Culture of targets prevents nurses from tending to patients

- Claire Rayner, President of the Patients Association, March 21, 2009 [Telegraph UK]

* Children being failed by health system, says head of watchdog

- Sarah Boseley, March 21, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Our cancer shame: Survival rates still lag behind EU despite spending billions

- Jenny Hope, March 20, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Failing hospital 'caused deaths'

- March 17, 2009 [BBC]

* Health gap drive 'wasted money'

- Nick Triggle, March 14, 2009 [BBC]

* Longer GP opening hours branded wasteful 'PR exercise' by doctors

- Lyndsay Moss, March 13, 2009 [The Scotsman]

* "Political meddling" threatens general practice, warns GP leader

- March 13, 2009 [Management in Practice (UK)]

* Children at risk through lack of training for doctors and nurses, report warns

- Rebecca Smith, March 13, 2009 [Telegraph UK]

* Chocolate should be taxed to control obesity epidemic, doctors are told

- Simon Johnson, March 13, 2009 [Telegraph UK]

* 1,000 villagers wait for a dentist after just one NHS practice opens

- March 10, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Study that proves the folly of NHS Alzheimer's drug ban

- Jenny Hope, March 7, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* NHS charges to rise in England

- March 5, 2009 [BBC]

* Disabled children wait up to two years for wheelchairs

- March 4, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]

* NHS under fire over waiting times

- February 25, 2009 [The Scotsman]

* Government procrastination blamed for HIV-contaminated blood tragedy

- February 23, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Specialist nurses 'vastly overworked'

- February 20, 2009 [Harwich & Manningtree Standard]

* Hundreds of operations cancelled at Lothian hospitals

- Adam Morris, February 19, 2009 [The Scotsman]

* Stop asking for antibiotics to cure coughs and colds, Government tells patients

- Daniel Martin, February 17, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Stroke services are 'UK's worst'

- February 17, 2009 [BBC]

* Hospitals curb caesarean births

- Sarah-Kate Templeton, February 15, 2009 [The Times]

* Only five out of 51 hospital trusts pass hygiene test, say inspectors

- Sarah Boseley, November 24, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Top doctors slam NHS drug rationing

- Sarah-Kate Templeton, August 24, 2008 [The Times]

* Heart patients dying due to poor hospital care, says report

- Sarah Boseley, June 8, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

* NHS dentistry loses almost a million patients after new dentists' contract

- David Rose, June 6, 2008 [The Times]

* Private healthcare managers could be sent to turn round failing NHS hospitals

- Philip Webster, Political Editor, and David Rose, June 4, 2008 [The Times]

* Cancer patients ‘betrayed’ by NHS

- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]

* NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay

- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]

* Pensioner, 76, forced to pull out own teeth after 12 NHS dentists refuse to treat her

- Olinka Koster, March 26, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Dental patients face care lottery

- March 26, 2008 [Metro(UK)]

* Lung patients 'condemned to death as NHS withdraws their too expensive drugs'

- Jenny Hope, March 24, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Women in labour turned away by maternity units

- John Carvel, March 21, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Health inequality has got worse under Labour, says government report

- Andrew Sparrow, March 13, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Angry GPs reluctantly accept plan for weekend and evening surgeries

- John Carvel, March 7, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

* NHS chiefs tell grandmother, 61, she's 'too old' for £5,000 life-saving heart surgery

- Chris Brooke, February 28, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Patient 'removed' from waiting list to meet target

- January 31, 2008 [The Scotsman]

* NHS patients told to treat themselves

- James Kirkup, January 4, 2008 [Telegraph UK]

* NHS is 'failing patients' despite record funding

- Rebecca Smith, October 4, 2007 [Telegraph UK]

* NHS rationing rife, say doctors

- September 24, 2007 [BBC]

* One in eight patients waiting over a year for treatment, admits minister

- John Carvel, June 8, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]

* Audit Office asked to investigate record £500m NHS underspend

- John Carvel, May 30, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]

* The drugs the NHS won't give you

- May 11, 2007 [Telegraph UK]

* UK lagging behind on cancer drug access, study finds

- May 10, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]

* One in six trusts is still putting patients on mixed-sex wards

- Daniel Martin, May 10, 2007 [Daily Mail(UK)]

* Specialist stroke care 'lottery'

- May 9, 2007 [BBC News]

* Smokers and the obese banned from UK hospitals

- May 2, 2007 [Healthcare News]

* Cancer patients told life-prolonging treatment is too expensive for NHS

- Lyndsay Moss, February 13, 2007 [The Scotsman]

* UK health service "harms 10 percent of patients"

- Kate Kelland, July 7, 2006 [Reuters]

* 5,000 elderly 'killed each year' by lack of care beds

- June 26, 2006 [Telegraph UK]

* Dental Socialism in Britain

- Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., May 9, 2006 [LewRockwell.com]

* Pay for nurses and surgeons doubles NHS overspend

- Beezy Marsh, Patrick Hennessy and Nina Goswami, April 23, 2006 [Telegraph UK]

* The money addicts: it's your cash they are gambling with

- Patience Wheatcroft, April 23, 2006 [Telegraph UK]

* NHS chiefs get luxury car deals

- Daniel Foggo and Steven Swinford, April 9, 2006 [The Times]

* Secret NHS plan to ration patient care

- Nigel Hawkes, April 7, 2006 [The Times]

* British Healthcare To Be Rationed

- April 7, 2006 [United Press International]

* British body rejects EPO drugs for cancer patients

- March 17, 2006 [Reuters]

* National Health Service - Grappling with Deficits

- March 9, 2006 [Economist.com]

* Hundreds wait to register as another dentist quits the NHS

- Martin Williams, September 23, 2005 [The Herald (Scotland)]

* Life-saving cancer drugs 'kept from NHS patients by red tape'

- Sam Lister, September 20, 2005 [The Times]

* NHS slides into the red despite record increases in health care spending

- September 20, 2005 [Telegraph UK]

* Alzheimer's sufferers hit by further delay in NHS approval for vital drugs

- Michael Day, September 18, 2005 [Telegraph UK]

* We all pay a price for our 'free' NHS

- John Smith, August 19, 2005 [The Scotsman]

* 2,000 British doctors out of work

- August 14, 2005 [The Washington Times]

* UK health 'unsustainable'

- August 14, 2005 [Finance24]

* NHS faces rising bill for negligence claims

- Ben Hall, August 8, 2005 [Financial Times]

* British boy to go to India for operation

- August 5, 2005 [United Press International]

* NHS failed to stop doctor raping scores of women

- Lois Rogers and Jonathon Carr-Brown, July 31, 2005 [The Times]

* Top crimewriter funds drugs for cancer victim refused by NHS

- Martyn Halle, July 8, 2005 [Telegraph UK]

* Report says NHS is mired in huge debts

- David Simms, June 25, 2005 [ABC Money (UK)]

* U.K. set to restrict smoking

- June 21, 2005 [The Associated Press]

* NHS ‘fund bias’ against men may cost 2,500 lives a year

- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 19, 2005 [The Times]

* Doubts on funding NHS 'monuments'

- Nicholas Timmins, June 10, 2005 [Financial Times]

* 17 million reasons why we must improve hospital meals

- June 7, 2005 [Cambridge Evening News]

* Figures show more patients waiting for operations

- June 3, 2005 [Guardian UK]

* Scarcity of NHS dental treatment is revealed

- Celia Hall, May 19, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

* Why NHS Opposes 'Treatment by Demand' for the Dying

- Stephen Howard and Jan Colley, PA, May 18, 2005 [Scotsman]

* 800 queue for NHS dentists

- May 5, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

* Hundreds more heroin addicts to be given a fix on the NHS

- Nic Fleming, April 25, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

* British health service facing nurse exodus

- April 25, 2005 [United Press International]

* About 400 patients a year in Scotland succumb to MRSA

- April 25, 2005 [Scotsman]

* NHS debts soar to over £1bn

- Karyn Miller, April 24, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

* British taxpayers foot $26.5 million bill for abortion tourists

- April 18, 2005 [Catholic World News]

* U.K. Liberal Democrats Would Raise Taxes to Pay for Health Care

- Reed Landberg, April 14, 2005 [Bloomberg]

* Number of NHS Bureaucrats 'Rising Faster Than Health Staff'

- Joe Churcher, March 22, 2005 [Scotsman]

* '£500m hole' in hospital budgets

- Celia Hall, March 21, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

* 1,000 Scots desert NHS every week

- Murdo Macleod, March 5, 2005 [Scotsman]

* British NHS facing financial crisis

- March 3, 2005 [Washington Times]

* NHS drugs regulator to withdraw approval of Alzheimer's treatment

- Nicholas Timmins, March 2, 2005 [FT.com - Financial Times]

* NHS waiting list rises

- February 11, 2005 [Guardian UK]

* Tumour patients hit by NHS shortages

- Jo Revill, February 6, 2005 [Guardian UK]

* NHS financial crises set to outlast winter

- Mike Waites, February 4, 2005 [Yorkshire Post]

* NHS 24 'priority' callers wait four hours for advice

- Caroline Wilson, January 14, 2005 [Evening Times (UK)]

* 'No strategy' on NHS waiting time

- January 14, 2005 [BBC]

* Output figures show NHS decline

- John Carvel, October 19, 2004 [Guardian UK]

* Heart patients die on waiting lists

- Peter Sharples, October 18, 2004 [Manchester Online]

* £25bn overspend feared for NHS computer network

- Karen Attwood, October 12, 2004 [telegraph.co.uk]

* Gaps in care cost £7bn, says charity

- John Carvel, October 4, 2004 [Guardian UK]

* NHS excluding poor people, UK

- September 15, 2004 [Medical News Today]

* Smokers 'should not get NHS care'

- September 6, 2004 [BBC News]

* Waiting list row blights Brighton

- John Carvel, September 4, 2004 [Guardian UK]

* Patients are denied the last rites under data protection law

- Elizabeth Day, July 25, 2004 [telegraph.co.uk]

* Shortage of dentists to double by 2011

- John Carvel, July 24, 2004 [Guardian UK]

* Britain's stiff upper lip gives way to a snarl

- Sarah Lyall, July 18, 2004 [The New York Times]

* Hospital Overcrowding A Cause of Superbug Infections

- John von Radowitz, July 1, 2004 [Scotsman.com]

* Hospital Crisis: Fallen Angels

- Lindsay Mcgarvie, May 23, 2004 [Glasgow Sunday Mail]

* Study finds British hospitals are still austere, cold, smelly and poorly maintained

- May 6, 2004 [News-Medical.net]

* Hospital bathrooms and showers: a continuing saga of inadequacy

- Andy Monro, MRCP & Graham P Mulley, DM, FRCP, May 2004 [Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine]

* Majority back public smoking ban

- March 24, 2004 [BBC]

* Discrimination Rampant In British Health Care

- Peter Moore, November 17, 2003 [365gay.com]

* PERIPATETICS—To the Medical Socialists of All Parties

- Sheldon Richman, September 2003 [FEE.org]

* Creeping Privatization?

Shortages of skilled workers, low morale, long queues for services, crumbling facilities and corrupt practises. - Roland Watson, August 6, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

* The World's Worst HMO

- Stephen D. Moore, November 24, 1999 [Random Thoughts]

* Socialized Medicine in Great Britain: Lessons for the Oregon Health Plan

- Professor John Spiers, March 18, 1999 [Cascade Policy Institute]

* The Sickbed Which is Socialized British Medicine

- December 23, 1997 [NCPA]

* The British Way of Withholding Care

- Harry Schwarz, March 1989 [FEE.org]

[List from talk show host Mark Levine's website]