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Works pretty darn well here in the UK. Impossible my arse.

• modeless 16y ago
  I'm not saying the UK's system is impossible. I'm saying it is staggeringly, almost criminally inefficient. I'm also not saying the current US system is better; we have our own set of regulations that have made our healthcare system as inefficient as any in the world.
  • swombat 16y ago
    Actually, my main problem with the UK system would be that they're too focused on efficiency at the expense of quality. That is, anywhere other than in their provisioning of IT systems, where they're focused on neither. I consider efficiency to be secondary to the saving of human lives or the general improvement of people's living conditions by curing them of curable ailments.
  • EdiX 16y ago
    Coming from a country with a "socialist" healthcare I was very surprised by how much money I'm paying in the US for health insurance, it's more than what I was paying in taxes and when I actually want to use my health insurance I still have to pay considerable additional money to actually get the serivice. And it's also extremely inefficient, there is no reason to measure my weight, temperature, blood pressure and breathing if what I have is clearly tendonitis. Long story short: I think your health care market got you the worst possible solution to health care in the world.