“FREE health care is VERY expensive, and mediocre quality. They do, however, do a good job when it could be life threatening. For anything else (knee replacement for example) you wait until they can take you”
Rob in the UK said the same thing there. The important stuff gets taken care of but there are ling waits for everything else. Except for those with private insurance and doctors love to take those cases.
Wow 2 months beyond our tax freedom day is nuts! Working half the year for the government should make people angry. I tj ink we are due for another tea party here - our founding fathers rebelled over so much less.
This is very true. The NHS is fantastic in emergencies, for the most part they do a great job. But once you get into the realm of long term, quality of life issues and chronic conditions, the budget is now stretched so thin that the prevailing policy is ‘wait and see.’ got a back injury? Give it a month and see how it is.... etc etc
However if you are wealthy enough to be able to afford private medical insurance in the UK, things get a whole lot different, as you get access to a whole different quality of service, where essentially if you can afford it, you can get anything treated.
Another thing those preaching socialised medicine forget, is that part of our wages goes towards a National Insurance contribution, which helps fund the NHS and other welface services, so we aren’t getting it for free.