The Conservative Cave

With one of our major parties pushing for socialized medicine (“Medicare for all”), it’s a good time to check in with Britain’s National Health Service to see how socialized medicine works in practice, as opposed to in the imaginations of liberals. Today’s headline: Crumbling NHS maternity units hit by leaks and sewage.

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Thousands of women giving birth in NHS hospitals have had their care disrupted by water leaks, sewage spills and collapsing ceilings, a report has revealed.

Maternity and neonatal care units in England recorded nearly 15,000 incidents of interruption or delays to care caused by building or equipment breakdown in only three years.
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Buildings in nearly half of England’s 120 trusts with maternity facilities failed to meet basic health and safety standards. About 50 maternity hospitals needed major repairs and eight were at “serious risk of imminent breakdown”.
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One photo, from the Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire, taken in June last year, shows a hole in the ceiling which was temporarily “repaired” and had water draining from a hose into a muddy wheelie bin. This partially obstructed the corridor for about six weeks, and within weeks of that leak being repaired, the area flooded again.
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The NHS report revealed that between April 2020 and March 2023, there were more than 5,300 reported instances of water or sewage leakages, nearly 3,000 incidents related to poor ventilation or heating, and nearly 2,000 issues with the structure of buildings in maternity and neonatal care services in England.

The report found that patient safety and dignity was so compromised that care had to be paused in more than 1,100 cases.

The Public Integrity Section (“PIN”) of the Department of Justice told Arctic Frost investigators to notify the deputy attorney general “via urgent report” of the FBI’s plans to subpoena Republican Rep. Jim Jordan’s toll records, repeating that directive a month later when agents sought to issue another subpoena for Rep. Chip Roy’s records. And when questioned under oath by the House Judiciary Committee, agents acknowledged they would have followed the PIN directive, indicating the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland knew of the FBI’s gross disregard of constitutional separation of powers and the Speech or Debate Clause protection afforded congressional leaders.

Wednesday morning, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan released a 56-page interim report on “How Jack Smith and the Biden-Harris Department of Justice Disregarded the Separation of Powers to Spy on Their Political Opposition.” While the report summarized previously known details of the Arctic Frost investigation and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s unlawful subpoenaing of congressional toll records, Wednesday’s release reveals for the first time evidence that, prior to Smith’s appointment, a top DOJ official under the Biden administration knew of the plot to seize the records of congressional Republicans.

That is what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges. For decades, the phrase “equal opportunity employer” was code for “employer that discriminates in the approved ways.” Under the Trump administration, the EEOC is finally fulfilling the role that most Americans innocently thought it was pursuing all along.

Last week, the EEOC commenced a lawsuit against a Youngstown, Ohio, hospital and physicians’ group:

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The EEOC’s suit said the surgeon had a successful practice with Mercy for many years and performed well, including exceeding Mercy’s productivity goals. However, Mercy subjected the surgeon to antisemitic remarks throughout his employment and ultimately fired him in November 2023, advising him that he was being terminated for a reason other than work performance. During the surgeon’s employment, Mercy also subjected him to unfavorable treatment which interfered with his practice because of his religion and race, the EEOC charged.

“... He was also excluded from scheduled meetings and had his surgery time blocks reduced. Shortly thereafter, he was terminated and told it was for ‘no reason,’” said EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas.

Not only that, it is probably illegal.

...A large group from multiple nations likely to arrive a very few weeks before the US midterm election ... why does this smell like a choreographed Prog-funded political stunt?