Trains ran on time under Hitler.
Everyone's IRS returns better be in order.
The Left always want to move toward control.
The Right always pushed toward liberty.
The UK healthcare system is a total disaster. I hope they continue stories like these. There seems to be a horror story every week coming out of Britain!
If the UK healthcare system is so good, then why did the former head of the system recently wait 9 months for cancer surgery and die in the process?
Satire?
He's got it backwards. If you have good insurance the price for procedures is way higher than if you could negotiate a cash price.
The system, in other words, wouldn’t limit anyone’s ability to pay for “premium” health care services if they chose to.
That’s the problem now. Half the population expects,demands services and doesn’t or won’t pay. Government demands that providers provide (incur the expense) with the risk of no reimbursement. Health care has costs, it is not free. It’s why were in the shape we’re in.
Dear Henry Blodget:
See that pill you just took? Acid reduction, pain relief, bipolar disorder (a frequent occurrence in lefties), blood pressure, diabetes, etc. etc.
See that medical equipment? MRI, PET scan, heart monitor, dialysis, etc. etc.
See those doctors? Specialists, surgeons, oncologists, ophthalmologists, etc. etc.
See those revolutionary surgical procedures? Arthroscope, microsurgery, neurosurgery, etc. etc.
What about generic drugs, saving you a fortune in prescription costs?
The biggest reason these innovations exists is - wait for it - the profit motive! Johnson & Johnson are not a charity. Eli Lilly is not a charity. GSK do not work for the government, even though they may occasionally work with the government.
Was research performed in other countries? Yes. Scientific discoveries like DNA? Yes.
But a system of socialized medicine suppresses or eliminates the profit motive. All the wonderful medical miracles you take for granted? There will be precious few of those medical miracles once the government runs the show.
How many of your precious and prescient ‘industrialized countries’ are producing medical innovations (including dental products and procedures) on anything even approaching the scale of the US?
Why should Merck pour oceans of cash into R&D if there is never a payday for their work? Why develop new surgical techniques if the reimbursement remains the same?
Why, God help me, are leftists so blind to cause-and-effect, to say nothing of simple economics? Why is class war the end-all-be-all of their existence, even over life and death?
Slate believes in global warming too.
So much for their analytical abilities.
The UK system is NOT efficient. Have they not been reading the articles about the NHS?
Get government completely out of the healthcare system and you’ll see medical costs drop by 80%.