I believe the victims here would appreciate some "socialism" - as in Medicare for all.

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Kantor said:

hsrob said:

Kantor said:

haxxiy said:
Medical care is so overpriced on the USA my aunt once considered opening an agency on Orlando in order to bring people to Brazil to start their treatment / have their surgery on private clinics here. Hell, for a single check-up it is cheaper to pay an extra $1000 for the flight.

Solution: kill all your physicists and import new ones from India. Surely it would ruin less lives in the end.

The quality of care in the USA is pretty much the best in the world if you can pay.

That's a big 'if' from what I hear and there are a number of other countries that provide care that's about as good and it's free or heavily subsidised for all citizens.

Australia has a mixed public/private system, the public system is essentially free but there are advantages in the private system, primarily direct consultant care and shorter waiting times for elective surgery/procedures.  The government provides incentives, for those that can afford it, to take out private health insurance to free up resources in the public system.

All medical training though is done in the public system though so it still retains much of the expertise and many consultant doctors work both in the public and private systems. The up-shot is that you receive a comparible level of care in the public and private systems but care is quicker to access in the private system (often nicer facilities too).

Treatment for emergency or life-threatenig conditions in the public system can be accessed without delay and for free.

The system is very good if not perfect, but we do pay for it through our relatively high tax rates.  My experience is that many Americans have this fear of socialised healthcare based on the belief that the standard of care must suffer and can't possibly match the costly healthcare in the US. I have met any number of US doctors who have come to Australia and leave with a very different impression, quite staggered by the standard of care delivered in the public system. 

Again it's not perfect but an example that sociliased healthcare is not always the demon that some people make it out to be.

My god.

Please write to the British government and explain this to them. Explain to them that the NHS, while great for routine procedures, is vastly inferior to private care, and therefore that private care should not be treated like the embodiment of Satan on earth.

It sounds to me like this would cost you less than the NHS costs us, and it's the best of both worlds. 

At least we have the NHS, sure we have to pay such high taxes for it but most people can't afford private healthcare services like bupa. i would rather continue to pay for the NHS than suddenly fall ill with cancer for example, then worry that i can't get treated as i can't afford it and die, although Australia's healthcare does sound better managed than Britain's (yet another thing they do better at than the UK!) anyway, the way i see it, "obamacare" is a good start for those who can't afford healthcare in the US.