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I don't think that's true. What we don't like is any talk of Americanising the NHS.

• mhh__ 7y ago
  > What we don't like is any talk of Americanising the NHS The difficulty is that "Americanisation" is this catch all term (Along with Neoliberalism etc.) that doesn't have a defined meaning, but is wide enough to beat any non-left wing solution into the ground. I don't think anyone actually wants the NHS to be more american, but most european healthcare systems have more in common with American one's than ours to some degree (Excluding universality, which it obviously lacks) Imagine if the Orange Book was released now, with it's plans to introduce insurance to the NHS: I can picture the momentum activists screaming now. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2014/06/20/nhs-one-best-developed-world https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2014/0... for example (old poll but still usable) 22% of people say the NHS is the best healthcare system in the world when it clearly isn't when measured by various measures most notably cancer outcomes which are pretty bad compared to some countries https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/110/1/5/278036 https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/110/1/5/278036