What Nationalized Healthcare Advocates Should Hear

London’s Times reports on a Freedom of Information Act revelation that,

Some hard-of-hearing patients in England are having to wait more than two years for an NHS hearing aid…. The average wait was 22 weeks in the 99 primary care trusts (PCTs) across the country that responded to the request. Another 53 failed to reply…. The RNID [Royal National Institute for Deaf People] said that 39 per cent of new patients in England wait for more than a year to get their hearing aids. Brian Lamb, for the institure, said: “If you struggle to pick up every word, hearing aids are a lifeline to work, friends and family.”

One has to wonder about nationalized healthcare advocates on this side of the Atlantic, not hearing that it is a cure worse than the disease.