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The uk National Health Service is free at the point of use, and is a completely government run, non-profit service. That model doesn’t seem to be working either

• zapdrive 4y ago
  Same as Canadian. It took me 7 months to get an endocrinologist appointment. Luckily I was in traveling in Mexico and saw one there. If I had waited for my Canadian appointment, i would have lost all my hair and over 30kgs by that time. (It was a harmone related problem).
• nicoburns 4y ago
  > That model doesn’t seem to be working either The model works just fine. The reason the NHS isn't working is because the Conservative government has intentionally underfunded it (UK per capita spending on healthcare is significantly lower than other European countries).
  • isleyaardvark 4y ago
    That, plus the CNN article shared above can’t simply be reduced to failure of “the model”: > Explanations for the current crisis “have to start with a consideration of Covid-19,” Ben Zaranko, an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) whose work focuses on Britain’s health care system, told CNN. “There’s the simple fact that there are beds in hospitals occupied by Covid patients, which means those beds can’t be used for other things.”