Socialized Medicine across the pond

It seems that the people that administer England's Socialized Medicine don't bother to follow the rules. From the UK Telegraph:

NHS trust spends �12,000 treating staff privately
An NHS trust has spent more than �12,000 on private treatment for hospital staff because its own waiting times are too long.

The money was used to bring in physiotherapists to help workers recover from muscular-skeletal injuries at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.

Bosses said it prevented them from leapfrogging NHS patients and enabled them to return to work more quickly.

However, the private treatment, which amounted to �12,116 for 271 appointments over the past year, was described by critics as "shocking".

Mark Wallace of the TaxPayers' Alliance said: "Their staff should have to wait like everybody else.

"Perhaps if they experienced it as their customers - that is the taxpayer - experienced it, they might be a little keener to improve their waiting times."

Indeed but isn't that the way the Socialist Elite always considers themselves. Better than those they govern. But they always know what is best for the poor unfortunates in their charge. You see the same thing here with the null-science enviros and the Global Warming shrills.