“NHS, referred her for further testing, but the wait list was nine months long. So Harrison paid £200, or about $250, for an ultrasound at a private hospital”
My neighbor die because the local NHS clinic was waiting on a replacement dialysis machine. The next nearest clinic was full.
My other neighbor 62 years old took out a loan on her town house to fly to South Africa to get a hip replacement, she had been on the waiting list for 3 years. She got tired of being in pain.
Those are the stories Obama care supporters do not hear about England healthcare system. The NHS is not free, the program is funded by general taxes and payroll tax. Nothing is free in life.
If you are old or single with no children, you are placed at the bottom of the waiting list.
My sister in law works for Henry Ford in Detroit.
She is a medical coder for them and does codes for multiple Canadians each week.
Even has some from the UK come across her system once in a while.
I noticed, that since Obamacare, the lines in the USA got quite longer too.
Not as long as NHS, but heading that way!