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What's your alternative to an NHS style system?

• thu2111 6y ago
  Mandatory health insurance. Look at the Swiss type system or really more or less any modern healthcare system. Pro-NHS Brits love to compare it exclusively to the USA, but most countries do far better than both.
  • Twixes 6y ago
    That's not an alternative, health insurance is mandatory anyway by virtue of us being made of flesh – the alternative is going bankrupt due to having no leverage after getting treatment for anything.
    • thu2111 6y ago
      No it isn't. Healthcare isn't infinitely expensive, the world is full of people who can pay cash for healthcare (or take an insurance policy with a very high excess which approximates the same thing).
      • jason0597 6y ago
        >the world is full of people who can pay cash for healthcare Are you sure about that? The median income in the US is less than $33k.
        • thu2111 6y ago
          "Full of people" is an idiom, it means there are lots of them. It doesn't mean all of them. There are lots of cheap medical interventions and lots of people who earn more than $33k a year.