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Ryuu96 on 07 August 2024
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Chrkeller said:
Ryuu96 said:

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.  

I have no doubt that it's not that bad for people who can afford it. Did you not claim that you're very wealthy in another thread? Do you not think that maybe you're speaking at this from a position of privilege and struggling to understand why poor plebs like myself, love the NHS system and don't want it to go anywhere? Why poor people in America dislike America's system? I feel a lack of sympathy of peoples situations from yourself when we talk about this. You keep ignoring my point that millions simply cannot afford private healthcare and then call those people whiny.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 07 August 2024