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halogamer1989 said: UK and Canadian citizens hate and die b/c of waiting lists and ultimately they now want private ins. |
The NHS is certainly good enough. I'll tell you the opinion of the NHS here is very positive - if it wasn't, the Conservative Party who will likely be the next government would have adopted their historical policy of privatisation. There are no mass defections to private care.
It isn't as fancy as US care (the hospital isn't a dream holiday), but it works and, importantly, everyone is covered rather than only most of them. It's much cheaper as a percentage of GDP. And that's the right thing to do, because even rich people benefit from having the bottom third of earners healthy and able to work.
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If you want to fix the healthcare system then elminate the major non-human cost - drugs. Nationalise dug reseach so the incentive is to cure people rather than put them on lifelong treatments; refuse to pay more than a certain amount for drugs otherwise acquire generics; reduce drug patent terms to really short times like 2-3 years. "Ask your doctor about..." is a destructive and wasteful state of affairs unique to private systems.
