England’s Example Of A Medical Horror Show: America

[kpete]

British fear 'American-style' healthcare system
As leaders debate ways to reform healthcare, politicians repeatedly tell a worried public that Britain will not turn the National Health Service into an 'American-style' private system.

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So frightening is the Yankee example that any British politician who values his job has to explicitly disavow it as a possible outcome. Twice.

“We will not be selling off the NHS, we will not be moving towards an insurance scheme, we will not introduce an American-style private system,” Prime Minister David Cameron emphatically told a group of healthcare workers in a nationally televised address last week.

In case they didn’t hear it the first time, Cameron repeated the dreaded “A”-word in a list of five guarantees he offered the British people at the end of his speech.

“If you’re worried that we’re going to sell off the NHS or create some American-style private system, we will not do that,” he said. “In this country we have the most wonderful, precious institution and also precious idea that whenever you’re ill … you can walk into a hospital or a surgery and get treated for free, no questions asked, no cash asked. It is the idea at the heart of the NHS, and it will stay. I will never put that at risk.”

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http://www.latimes.com/health/la-fg-britain-health-care-20110613,0,1237142.story

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via:http://www.oliverwillis.com/2011/06/14/englands-example-of-a-medical-horror-show-america/

[fascisthunter]

1. This COuntry is Embarrassing

how can one "love America" but not give a shit about Americans.

[KansDem]

2. You mean the first thing you hear when you walk into a doctor's office in England..

...isn't "I need an insurance card, photo I.D., and copay!" ???

:wow:

[truebrit71]

3. David Camerwrong WANTED to do "reform" the NHS and got his dick slammed in a drawer...

...the NHS, love it or hate it, is on it's worst day precisely one trillion times better than what is on offer here in the land of the "free"....

It should be every American politician's greatest shame that the supposedly greatest nation on earth refuses to take care of it's sick unless they get paid first...

[hifiguy]

4. The NHS has always been the third rail of British politics

Not even Thatcher, who was oblivious to human suffering and meaner than a snake, had the guts to touch it. The grand old English tradition of tar and feathers would be revived in a heartbeat if any UK politician was dumb enough to talk about getting rid of, or substantially changing, the NHS.

[Yavin4]

5. So, We're The Boogeyman That Motivates Other Democracies

You can win office abroad with "We won't be like Americans".

[QuintanarooBoy]

6. There have been two other threads on this exact point,

but it bears repeating. Rec.

[and-justice-for-all]

7. Take away any EU countries NHS

and the people witll burn their parliments to the ground.