Single Payer is what goes on in Canada.
The NHS and Single Payer are both bad ideas, but they are not the same bad idea.
I don't often say it, but I stopped reading after that nonsensical remark.
I will say the National Health ran a long time - since the 1950s, right? That’s a long time to wean people off an entitlement.
As the child of a hypochondriac, I know how people are running Medicare into the grave - using MRIs and CAT scans the way some people use tanning beds. Sad.
They have a two-tier system. You can go NHS or private. You pay for private care, but it’s not as much as in the US.I used both when I lived there.
Private care was great. NHS incredibly lacking.
Single payer failed in Vermont.
how is this possible?? The rich are taxed at a progressive rate there are high gas taxes to fund the NHS too.
Apparently govt can’t run healthcare anywhere!
One of the worst abuses of the NHS I read about was that the NHS “pays for” in vitro fertilization, a procedure that runs several thousand dollars. The NHS also “pays for” abortion. About one out of eight women who use in vitro fertilization to get pregnant turn around and abort the resulting baby.
People really don’t care about cost when they don’t pay directly. If those women had to pay for both the in vitro procedure and abortion themselves, the incidence of both would decrease, and the practice of going to great length to get pregnant with no intention of having the baby alive would probably disappear completely.
Ah, the old US Post Office model. Or the tax-payer funded Amtrak train model.
“Consequently, 131 out of the 138 hospital trusts in Britain’s National Health System (NHS) are now in debt. “
Probably need some really highly degreed and highly paid “debt” trust administrators! Managing “trusts” with positive balances are easy, managing debt trusts are much harder.
Could have their “Department of Official Socialist Lies” restate the trust balances to more favorably reflect the successes of socialism.....the stupid peasants will never figure it out.
I would have figured patient dying of dehydration in their hospital beds because NHS nurses were ‘too busy’ to bring them water or check their condidtions would have been a warning.
But Democrats are stupid that way.