Government Health Care Kills More Brits Than Guns Kill Americans

In 2011, 8,583 Americans were killed with firearms. Meanwhile in the UK, the National Health Service is killing 1,000 people a month or 12,000 a year.


We’re not talking natural or inevitable deaths, but preventable deaths that were caused by an overburdened and poorly managed health care system.


The study found that something went wrong with the care of 13 per cent of the patients who died in hospitals. An error only led to a death in 5.2 per cent of these cases, which was the equivalent to nearly 12,000 preventable deaths in hospitals in England every year.

13 percent and 5 percent of deaths are far higher numbers than anything you will find among gun owners. And here’s what that looks like.


The Office for National Statistics figures also showed that 43 people who starved to death, 287 people were recorded by doctors as being malnourished when they died in hospitals;

there were 558 cases where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of severe dehydration in hospitals

21,696 hospital patients and 1,100 care home residents were suffering from the blood poisoning when they died.

In July, an inquest heard that a young man who died of dehydration at a leading hospital rang 999 for police because he was so thirsty.

[link to frontpagemag.com]

one of the things i have against the brits, they have a hideous healthcare system and they know it. yet they are the same people who call us "barbaric" for not wanting the same crap here as they have there, and they are the same people who tell us "get rid of your guns."

if socialized medicine doesn't work in a little country of some 60 million, how will it work in a country of 314 million?

Last Edited by deplorable but adorable davvi on 01/01/2013 07:08 PM