UNBELIEVABLE, INCREDIBLE – AT 7:47 A.M. ET:  Periodically, we like to pass on stories about Britain's National Health Service, as a warning of what socialized medicine eventually becomes.  Add to the National Health Service the regulations imposed by the European Union, and you have ingredients for disaster.  Consider this, from London's Telegraph:

The General Medical Council said current European rules represent a “serious cause of concern” and risk to patient safety by banning it from testing GPs’ language skills before they can start working here.

The regulator said it has some doctors on its books who "are not able to communicate in English" but could not prevent them seeking work here under European law.

It warned that bogus doctors from other countries may find their way into the NHS by presenting fake certificates or ID, because of a lack of security checks, or could hide the fact that they had been suspended from practising in their homeland.

Even genuine doctors from abroad may have little idea of how to carry out procedures that are standard in Britain, because there is no standard training, education or healthcare system.

The GMC’s strongly worded submission to the European Commission, which is reviewing the laws that allow free movement of medics across the continent, comes after the scandal of Daniel Ubani.

COMMENT:  Once again, the patient is last.  Who cares if people die, as long as political correctness and the party line are maintained?

We are going to have that here before long.  You can see it coming, and Barack Obama's Justice Department will be there to enforce the "rights" of "different cultures." 

Recently, in extraordinary statements, the heads of Britain, France and Germany declared that multiculturalism had failed in their countries.  It is unlikely, though, that the leftist elites who run the European Union's bureacracies really care.

March 30, 2011