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The government provides your police force and fire department. Why not?
by dbbk 2mo ago
The government provides your police force and fire department. Why not?
- 0xy 2mo agoLook no further than the UK, with 24 month waiting lists, the shunning of experimental treatments (many high profile kill decision cases) and skyrocketing costs. In the UK, a brain surgeon is paid less than the General Manager of a single Buc-ees Gas Station location in the United States. Absolutely diabolical.
- dbbk 2mo agoI'm British. You're incorrect.
- 0xy 2mo agoOn which point? Brain surgeon pay? [1] [2] Waitlisting? [3] [4] There's literally over 7,000,000 Britons on a NHS waiting list right now. Please clarify what I'm incorrect about. [1] https://uk.indeed.com/career/neurosurgeon/salaries https://uk.indeed.com/career/neurosurgeon/salaries [2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/buc-ee-offering-275k-salaries-161559187.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/buc-ee-offering-275k-salaries... [3] https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/pressures/nhs-backlog-data-analysis https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-w... [4] https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/1nz7dt2/if_your_in_the_uk_waiting_on_the_nhs_2_year/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/1nz7dt2/if_your_in_th...
- petilon 2mo agoWhy not take a look at Medicare in the US instead? The US healthcare system has way more money than the UK, so comparing to UK is not meaningful.
- KZerda 2mo agoThe US, we ration too. We just do it in the most cruel way possible where the working poor doesn't get access to health care, because they can't afford it, and just lives with preventable and easily treated conditions until they die sooner and more miserably.