97-year-old woman broke her hip, but was denied an ambulance because…resources…she was found dying on the floor 5 days later

 Olivia Murray - American Thinker   

That wonderful “healthcare for all” system the progressives keep pushing in the U.S.

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In October 2025, 97-year-old Babette Burge called for emergency services, and the attending paramedic determined that given Babette’s “shortened and rotated” leg, she likely had a hip fracture. But unfortunately for Babette, she lived in the U.K. with its socialized medicine system, so the paramedic said she’d have to wait ten days for an ambulance.

Mohammed had a stuffy nose, Fatima was going into labor, and Ahmed was experiencing a khat overdose. (I’m being facetious, but I’m probably not that far off, if at all.)

Babette was found five days later, expiring on the floor of her home.

According to the Daily Mail report, the inquest into the tragedy revealed she did in fact have a broken hip, a contributing factor in her pneumonia death.

After doing a quick internet search, I discovered that for FY 2024/2025, the National Health Service spent around £205 billion—which equates to around £561 million, or more than half a billion pounds, each day. Then, I learned that the NHS, in recent history, ran a massive campaign to promote LGBTQ+ advocacy in the system, painting the ambulances with rainbows, and commissioning a gay doctor to design a rainbow badge for the NHS uniform; this badge was then mass produced for “friendly” employees and staff." . . .More...