Brits Tell Sick to Stay Away From Emergency Rooms

According to a source in the United Kingdom, the administrators of the utopian National Health System (NHS) have come up with a brilliant idea for cost savings in the socialized medical care scheme. People with "common ailments" will be instructed NOT to use the emergency rooms, called accident and emergency units (A&E) in the UK.

From Mirror.co.uk:

But documents seen by the Mirror show the "ailments" include serious heart problems, pneumonia, epilepsy, bleeding ulcers and even gangrene.

Well, I'm no doctor, but it sure seems like some of those ailments would require emergency treatment. Obviously, cost has become the overriding factor involved in decision-making regarding health care for Brits.

Ostensibly, unless a person is on life support, the NHS wants sick people to subject themselves to weeks, months or more waiting for an appointment with a community doctor rather than use the emergency facilities. Good luck. There's a shortage of doctors and nurses and wait times are already unreasonable. They can tell people not to come to the emergency rooms but that alone won't keep them away. They'll probably need iron bars and armed guards, fairly common elements of a socialist society.