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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate these conversations that are I’ll informed and myopic. I loved in the UK for years and worked in the healthcare sector. The NHS is great for acute care. It is horrible for

Preventative care (there is not such thing as the annual physical there that we all get for free with most health insurance in the US, and women do not get annual Pap smears via NHS until the age of 25).

Also horrible for elective surgeries. Think rotator cuff, hip transplant, ent surgery. In the US these surgeries can be scheduled in 4-6 weeks. I’m the UK these are delayed by YEARS.

Also horrible for innovative medical treatments. I literally had a doctor tell me to get a specific treatment when I visited the US again bc the UK is not advanced and the treatment would not make it to the Uk for another 5 years.

Also - yes we have to pay for healthcare through deductibles copay and employee portion of healthcare premiums. But the Uk and most other Europe countries have a 40% TAX RATE. So if they think they aren’t paying for insurance they are deaf dumb and blind to the actual mechanisms of how the NHS (which is going bankrupt btw Google it) is funded. [/quote]

I wish more people understood the delay in non emergent care that happens in these countries with “free” healthcare. The delayed by YEARS thing you mentioned is real and is very frustrating for people living it. My friend lives in Canada and needed knee surgery. Since it wasn’t an “emergency” he waited 2 years for his name to come up for it. Yes it was free-but it’s really a different system for healthcare and it’s not without issue. [/quote]

No one making a median income from other countries would ever willingly trade their system to replace it with what Americans have. [/quote]

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