EU and UK politics [OT]

[Chrkeller]

Ryuu96 said:

Chrkeller said:

I do believe what I said, because that was 100% my first hand experience.

And yes, we didn't want to risk my daughter's health because a 6 month wait is part of the system.  Seems like a flawed system.

Having both systems just means one or both aren't working as intended. 

My point is the public system, in the US, is being sold as a silver bullet....  and I disagree firmly.  My experience says otherwise.  Trading one problem for another, expense with limited access to specialists.  

The NHS would not exist if it was terrible for anything more complex than a head cold and flu shot and I don't really understand why you can't understand why I take issue with that statement. For your situation, there is my situation, for my situation, there's another persons situation, the extreme generalisation doesn't help anything. You waited 6 months to see a specialist, I waited a week for my surgery. I'm not saying my situation matches everyone's, I'm not saying the NHS is perfect, I admit it has problems, I take issue with extreme generalisations of the situation one way or another.

The NHS is a lot more than "specialists" as well. So what is your solution? That we fix the issues that the NHS has or we rip up the NHS and force private healthcare on everyone, thus screwing over millions of low-income families? I can say with upmost certainty that my family would not have been able to afford my surgeries and many others wouldn't. Both systems can exist side-by-side, I never said private shouldn't be an option, but a lot of NHS current problems are due to Tories being neglectful bastards, their failures reflect on the country and the NHS.

I believe in posting my opinion formed from my experience.  And I was not impressed.  I'm not going to back off my experience.  

As for the fix.  I'm a chemist.  No idea how to fix healthcare.  That isn't my wheelhouse.  The US system isn't as bad, in my experience, as people make it out to be.  That was my point.  

After living in Europe I have personally concluded American's are whiny children who have zero idea how well they have it.