auditor0007
Gold Member
I suggest anyone interested in how UK subjects view their NHS visit a message board in the UK. I have and asked those who live in the UK how they feel about the NHS. The responses were 100% in support. Of course there were and are problems, but each response I received supported their system and condemned our profit driven system.
I'm not sure that most Brits can comment with authority on the U.S system without experiencing it personally. Both systems have their good and bad points.
What is interesting is that while the British system has it's problems, its costs are so low in comparison to ours that many of its problems could be addressed with additional funding. And this additional funding would leave them still paying much less than we do. And because there system is set up as a one payer system, any additional funding would go directly to healthcare whereas for every dollar extra that we spend, only $.65 to $.70 of every dollar goes directly to healthcare while the rest goes to administrative costs.
Because our system is already unrealistically expensive, trying to improve it will only make things worse without a complete overhaul of the entire system.