Forum Post: UK Health Care Falters

Thanks to austerity and privatization.

Those benchmarks of libe(R)tarianism.

"In April, my friend's 84-year-old mother fell and was rushed into hospital in the East Midlands of England. My friend was concerned that his mother, who suffers from the early stages of dementia, would be sent home prematurely without appropriate assistance. Sure enough, the same day she was admitted to hospital, Mrs. Barber was returned home. My friend is justifiably anxious about what support he's going to receive to care for his sick mother – and his story is only one of many highlighting the disgraceful conditions into which Britain's hospitals and the National Health Service (NHS) have fallen"

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