UK medical tourists flee waiting lists and poor sanitation
The InsureBlog has an interesting comment about two factors driving UK residents to flee their National Healthcare System in favor of treatment abroad.
“But for our cousins across The Pond, it’s quite obviously not about price (after all, it’s “free”), but the very real lack of care, both in quantity (waiting lists) and quality (lack of sanitation, for example).”
Interesting. The long wait times in the UK for even critically needed care are well known. But is there also a basic problem with sanitation? Apparently. Cases of Clostridium difficile contracted in hospitals has increased 500 percent in the last 10 years, according to an article in World Net Daily. It would seem sick hospitals are pretty common in the “developed” countries.
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