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England Revises Health Care System

From Fox Business News.

"The reorganisation of the world's largest public healthcare system will see family doctors take charge of the lion's share of a 110 billion pound ($165 billion) healthcare budget.

Losing out will be thousands of managers in the National Health Service (NHS) whose jobs will be cut to slash bureaucracy and save money."

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"Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is concentrating on structural reforms he says will improve the outcomes for patients as well as saving money at a time of limited resources.

He wants patients to be able to use information about the quality of different hospitals and consultants to choose the treatment best for them.

More than 150 local health authorities in England, known as primary care trusts or PCTs will be scrapped, along with ten larger regional management bodies.

Much of the 80 billion pound budget currently spent by PCTs will devolve to family doctors or general practitioners (GPs), who will work in consortia to commission local health services, many previously handled by the scrapped authorities."

Oh how the mighty have fallen--first, Prince William and his girlfriend elope, saving the cost of a royal wedding, then the Queen's trip to New York is financed by Canada, and now this! This is a precursor to what will happen to us down the road, now that we have health care reform--all those layers of bureaucracy invented by Obama to get more of his cronies employed by the government will soon devolve into direct payment to doctors by making THEM manage the health care budget directly.

Posted by Cute at 6:44 PM

Labels: economy, financial (non-tax), health, politics