Medical care Private v State

[Rival]

In both cases, there was no waiting period. My surgeon, after looking at my MRI, simply said, "I can do you Thursday." And my partner was an emergency admission to hospital, from which, as I said, he did not come home for 8 1/2 months.

Problem is in the NHS this could have taken a year.

 

[Revoltingest]

Nobody, who doesn't directly profit from it, prefers the US healthcare system.

I don't profit from it.
I prefer it.
You must recognize that there are different
circumstances for different people.
Also, I've known many who profit from it,
& they agree it needs an overhaul.
(I once designed orthopedic surgical tools for
a company. It made no profit. It lost money.)

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I don't know.

The obvious goal is to maximize healthcare quality while minimizing healthcare disparities. If the Legatum Prosperity Index is to be trusted I should probably choose the UK system over that of the US (or move to Finland).

 

[Sand Dancer]

Thank goodness UK politics is so much different than the US.

We are inching toward the other developed nations. We will get there. The religious right holds us back though. US Christianity is an anomaly and sadly they are exporting it to Africa.

 

[Sand Dancer]

The USA system is better for me & mine, personally.
Fantastic care at reasonable price.
(Note that cost & price aren't the same thing.)

However, from a public policy perspective,
the whole system needs an overhaul.

The care depends on your employers' insurance. We keep getting crappier care for more money.

 

[Viker]

In a choice strictly between the two, the UK.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

The UK. The process of getting just evaluated for Autism costed twice my rent, but took six months to just get the first appointment. And that's with a pretty good health insurance. It took me years to pay off an in-network surgery because they had to use a IV tech who wasn't in-network. Most people in the US, even with decent insurance, are a stone's throw away from destitution from healthcare bills. And people who are disabled, and worse with an invisible disability? *breathes out a sigh.*

 

[Revoltingest]

The care depends on your employers' insurance. We keep getting crappier care for more money.

I've no employer.
(Medicare Advantage)
But is care really getting worse?
Things I've experienced have improved
since the really cheap days of the 70s.
Better procedures, more drugs, better
anesthesia, Da Vinci.

 

[Sand Dancer]

I've no employer.
(Medicare Advantage)
But is care really getting worse?
Things I've experienced have improved
since the really cheap days of the 70s.
Better procedures, more drugs, better
anesthesia, Da Vinci.

Okay, access to care I mean. I am a couple of years away from Medicare and will try to get on Advantage.

 

[Soandso]

The healthcare system in the USA is awful. I prefer the UK system. People here would rather wait to see a doctor than deal with the bills, and because of that (imo) the USA has a lower life expectancy than most other first world countries

 

[JIMMY12345]

I've always been a supporter of the NHS, even with all the cut backs and sell offs imposed over the years by successive conservative governments. I really don't understand the American resistance to this way of funding.

I suspect like everything ........there is a strong lobby system to pay politicians to vote for what they want.People with money pull the strings.The politicians eagerly follow the money.It is democratic in a sense the person with the most money wins.