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This should probably be updated to say "UK Govt" for clarity, not everyone will immediately know what the National Health Service is.
by zymhan 6y ago
This should probably be updated to say "UK Govt" for clarity, not everyone will immediately know what the National Health Service is.
- Semaphor 6y agoI actually think that should become a general rule. Way too many US-related titles about things far less well known than the NHS.
- heavenlyblue 6y agoNHS in general is way less known than UK citizens think. Especially in Europe where the existence of a national healthcare system is not a religion but a norm.
- vinay427 6y ago> Especially in Europe where the existence of a national healthcare system is not a religion but a norm. An NHS-type system is not at all the norm in Europe. Comprehensive and universal health insurance or even single-payer health insurance are not the same as the single-payer (mostly) single-provider system in the UK. In most of the Germanic countries, for instance, the norm is closer to the multiple-payer multiple-provider system in the US in structure, albeit most certainly not in outcomes due to some important tweaks.
- DanBC 6y ago> single-provider system in the UK England doesn't have a single provider system. I don't know about Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland (they each have health systems that are devolved and thus separate).
- vinay427 6y agoI did specify "(mostly)" which I think is rather accurate. It's rather close to a completely single-provider model (in each of the constituent devolved regions, as you note) compared to the system in Canada, for instance. > With largely public or government owned providers, this also fits into the 'Beveridge Model' of health care systems, sometimes considered to be single-payer, with relatively little private involvement compared to other universal systems. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_healthcare#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_healthcare#United...
- Semaphor 6y agoI hear about NHS extremely often. I’m German
- heavenlyblue 6y agoIf you use Hacker News, you probably do hear about it often. Do German newspapers cover the news about NHS all the time?
- Semaphor 6y ago> If you use Hacker News, you probably do hear about it often. Well, this sub-thread was about someone saying NHS is not that well known… on HN ;) > Do German newspapers cover the news about NHS all the time? I wouldn’t know, I rarely read them.
- heavenlyblue 6y agoSo why would you argue in a thread that is about what people think in the general case?
- Semaphor 6y agoÌn the general case of having country specific things in the title, but not the name of the country.
- paxys 6y agoHaha yeah my immediate thought after reading the headline was "no way the US government actually did something right". And turns out they didn't.
- sneak 6y agoI thought NHS was about as well known as FBI or KGB or GCHQ.