Oh, we look abroad. We like what Indonesia is doing with mandatory health savings accounts that is owned by the citizen (can't be raided by crooked politicians

Oh, we look abroad. We like what Indonesia is doing with mandatory health savings accounts that is owned by the citizen (can't be raided by crooked politicians, a la social security). I wonder if you can explain: if socialized health care is so great, why do so many Brits purchase supplemental private health insurance? Any study or metric, huh? Sounds like you prefer lies, damn lies, and statistics. For instance, the US is hands-down the best in the world for intensive care after premature births. But you wouldn't know that if you just looked at infant mortality rates as compared to other countries because they use a different standard for what constitutes a "live birth". We actually place some value on life and work really hard to rescue the preemies, but that skews our numbers because lots of them still die. When you make blanket statements, try bolstering them with some truth or else you sound like an ideologue. Drill down a little. Make sure you shake those assumptions you've been fed and make the ideas resilient to attacks.