What happens when you put health care into the hands of the same bureaucrats who run the Department of Motor Vehicles? OK, so it isn't the same bureaucrats, but the same type of bureaucrat. The short answer is, "Nothing good."
The Commons public accounts committee (PAC) said the “jaw-dropping” sums being paid to victims of botched treatment and government inaction to reduce errors were “unacceptable”.
That £58.2 billion is to settle "lawsuits arising from clinical negligence," what we call Malpractice on this side of the pond.
The sum is so huge that it is the second-largest liability across the whole of government, with only nuclear decommissioning costlier, the committee said in a damning report.
There are a lot of details in the article, like cost overruns on an infectious disease lab, and more on the harms to patients.
I can't wait until we have socialized medicine.
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