Far from it (quite sadly). NHS is the more radical national healthcare solution than most countries take, which is to have private healthcare publically funded, Britain has public healthcare publically funded.
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare is something generally used by its detractors) keeps private funding for the most part (though it expands the definition of "poor" when it comes to the healthcare-for-the-poor that is Medicaid) and simply highly regulates the private system to iron out the many inequities that previously existed in American healthcare, like how companies were free to cancel policies for pretty much any reason, including if you were "too sick", or how people who already had health conditions (like diabetes) could NOT get health insurance from any company. ACA regulates what companies can and can't do, balancing that out (because those companies do that for a reason. Very sick customers lose them money) by forcing every American to be covered, putting those who lack health insurance not because they can't get it due to illness, but because they're healthy enough to not need it. The healthy customers paying in for something they're likely not going to use is supposed to balance out the sick customers that the companies will lose money on.
So no, we're still a far cry away from the healthcare of civilized countries. The nice thing is it's only a matter of time now, because every year that passes with the ACA makes it more unthinkable to go back to pre-ACA healthcare (as the voters get used to having healthcare that isn't trying to screw them), and eventually a public health insurance company will emerge and put an end to this foolishness.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
