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cykoe6 · 06-02-2009, 12:04 PM

Here is some more information about Single Payer Healthcare systems:

United Kingdom - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...partments.html

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An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found that thousands of 999 patients are being left to wait in ambulances in car parks and holding bays, or in hospital corridors ? in some cases for more than five hours ? before they can even join the queue for urgent treatment.

Experts warn that hospitals are deliberately delaying when they accept patients ? or are diverting them to different sites ? in order to meet Government targets to treat people within fours hours of admitting them..........

During a six-week period last autumn, hospital chiefs in the north east of England closed casualty units to 999 arrivals on 34 occasions, for up to 19 hours at a time.

Internal documents from the London Ambulance Service reports of extensive delays throughout December: "Ambulances have queued in large numbers for up to five hours to unload, and two hour delays were relatively common," it says.

The briefing note, written in January, says hospitals were so short-staffed that ambulance staff were regularly forced to look after multiple patients simultaneously, so that colleagues could respond to 999 calls.

Delays to patients arriving to A&E by ambulance are increasing in many parts of the country as hospitals struggle to cope with a massive increase in the number of emergency hospital admissions since family doctors stopped providing routine out-of-hours care.

Canada - http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazet...6-08f72843109c

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As La Presse reported this week, the average time Quebec's old and sick spend waiting in emergency rooms for admission or release rose once again last year, reaching 17.1 hours. That's a far cry from the 12 hours the government set as an objective three years ago, and the trend is heading in the wrong direction.