[unixfox]

Even the Brits are starting to get it.

[EGPWS]

While the US federal government expands its diktat power over American health care, the British are looking for ways to rescue themselves from their own government-run system.

That's because Great Britain has run out of other peoples money already.

[Monterrosa-24]

What socialism does to the practice of medicine is what it does to everything else. It destroys its humanity and creates layers of bureaucrats. Somehow before Medicare and Medicaid American medicine worked...It was not perfect but it was much better than it will be five years into ObamaCare.

[FourPeas]

If only we could learn from our brothers across the pond....

[sodpoodle]

IIRC in the UK - for decades the self-employed were allowed to opt-out of the NHS and paid physicians and hospitals from private funds. Health Insurance was not a huge market.

From Wiki: According to the World Health Organization, government funding covered 86% of overall health care expenditures in the UK as of 2004, with private expenditures covering the remaining 14%.

Apparently, the NHS is so thoroughly entrenched - physicians are critical of the private plans as being ‘too restrictive’.

[GeronL]

I expect riots.

Not because anyone will be denied free healthcare but because some might get it faster and better if they pay.

Its all about control.

[Jack Hammer]

If Obama weren’t such a self-absorbed invert, he’d open his eyes and look abroad.

London isn’t really all that far from Washington.