Who told you that when you were in England? And where do you get your crazy ideas about Thatcher from?! I'm not able to comment on US health care, because I'm not from the US. You're not from the UK, so don't presume to judge our healthcare system.
The fact is that there are competent and incompetent medical staff everywhere, whether publicly funded or paid for privately or by insurance. The issue here is how health care should be managed and paid for. We have socialized medicine. The quality of care is just fine thank you. Our biggest problem here is waiting lists. I will admit that sometimes the wait times for consultancies and non-emergency surgeries seem rather long.
However, my family live in France where they also have socialized health care. They organize it differently to the UK and waiting times don't seem to be a problem there. In fact, the French health care system is widely acknowledged to be one of the best in the world. So obviously, quality socialized medicine is possible.
Check your facts before you post and stop relying on one-off anecdotal stories that you 'believe' are true based on the fact that somebody said so. Contrary to popular American belief, people in Europe are not all snaggle-toothed tax slaves with terrible plumbing.
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Who told you that when you were in England? And where do you get your crazy ideas about Thatcher from?! I'm not able to comment on US health care, because I'm not from the US. You're not from the UK, so don't presume to judge our healthcare system.
The fact is that there are competent and incompetent medical staff everywhere, whether publicly funded or paid for privately or by insurance. The issue here is how health care should be managed and paid for. We have socialized medicine. The quality of care is just fine thank you. Our biggest problem here is waiting lists. I will admit that sometimes the wait times for consultancies and non-emergency surgeries seem rather long.
However, my family live in France where they also have socialized health care. They organize it differently to the UK and waiting times don't seem to be a problem there. In fact, the French health care system is widely acknowledged to be one of the best in the world. So obviously, quality socialized medicine is possible.
Check your facts before you post and stop relying on one-off anecdotal stories that you 'believe' are true based on the fact that somebody said so. Contrary to popular American belief, people in Europe are not all snaggle-toothed tax slaves with terrible plumbing.
August 6, 2009 - 10:21amThis Comment
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