Here’s something you won’t hear about in Michael Moore’s newest American bashing “documentary” about health care. Over a thirty year period there were 462,000 avoidable deaths in Scotland that could be traced back to “health service failings.” From The Daily Record:

POOR NHS treatment has led to almost half a million Scots dying in the last 30 years, a new study has revealed.

Doctors at Glasgow University found that between 1974 and 2003, a total of 462,000 people died in Scotland as a result of health service failings

It means Scotland has one of the highest avoidable death rates in western Europe.

The study examined the number of deaths caused by a lack of “timely and effective health care”.

The vast majority of people – around 250,000 – who died due to inadequate or delayed treatment were heart or stroke patients.

Another 7300 had cancer and slightly more than 2000 were pneumonia patients.

Hey everybody, let’s have universal health care like Europe!

h/t Amy Ridenour