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It's also worth mentioning that private health care and insurance both exist in the UK. Individuals still get the choice to go to any private doctor they want,
by avianlyric 5y ago
It's also worth mentioning that private health care and insurance both exist in the UK.
Individuals still get the choice to go to any private doctor they want, they'll just have to pay for it themselves. Just like the US, except the NHS provides an excellent safety net for everyone without private insurance or the means to pay for private care.
- arethuza 5y agoIn most cases its the same doctors working in private hospitals and for the NHS.
- Silhouette 5y agoAnd in some cases it involves NHS facilities too. There are definitely some questionable aspects of our public/private healthcare. But again, this isn't always how it works, and the ethics involved are also complicated.
- arethuza 5y agoI know someone whose condition rapidly deteriorated while receiving treatment in a private hospital and when things were looking really bad they got transferred to an NHS hospital.
- Silhouette 5y agoI hope the person you know was OK. That transfer is actually not surprising. Emergency/intensive care is almost always NHS here. Private options tend to be better in situations like having multiple treatments available where one is significantly more effective or more reliable but also costs a lot more. Sometimes the NHS will only offer a cheaper but inferior alternative, which sounds horrible until you think that there is a huge but ultimately pooled budget and any time policy allows more spending on one treatment there is always someone losing out somewhere else.
- CountDrewku 5y agoThe US has safety nets as well, they're just not as generous as the UK's.