10thJune
Public healthcare is bollocks
In a stark contrast from the current healthcare system in the US, the UK has the National Health Service aka NHS. This is a socialised healthcare service that pretty sucks for preventive care but does fine if you get hit by a bus. It’s what you would expect from free health care. Service is generally poor…not terrible…but not great either. It’s certainly not all roses like the picture Michael Moore painted in Sicko. There are plenty of people that have fallen on that line between life-threatening and non-life-threatening that have gotten the fish and chips up their arse as a result.
As the US is shifting towards this public healthcare model, note that the NHS is going bankrupt and that overall I prefer privatised healthcare like most people in the UK get anyway because you want someone to look at that rash under your bum instead of defining it as “non-life-threatening” and telling you to bugger off.
I will end this blog by saying bollocks…just because.
workmonkey says 10th June @ 17:05
As with most topics, you are uneducated on the topic. The plan in the US will offer a public option in addition to a private option. So you can continue to get your ass rash checked out. The difference being now people who don’t have private insurance can also get checked out. Secondly, the NHS might be going bankrupt, but so is our nation, attempting to pay the costs associated with private insurance. Thirdly, when is the last time you used your private insurance? I supposedly have one of the best private plans around, and my knee surgery still cost me well over $1,000, and now they are trying to prevent my physical therapy and charge me an additional $3,000. Whatever illusions you have about American healthcare, I can assure you, it is worse than NHS. Or, at the very least, more expensive.