Why hello there.
It's always nice to see somebody having a rant over something that they know nothing about. As other people mention, we pay tax for the NHS. A lot of tax. In fact, the amount of income tax we pay has been known to make Americans choke on their foamy, piss-weak flagons of mass-produced "beer".

And it doesn't work. It's so badly run that the *billions* of pounds paid into it by the British public disappear into a black hole of middle management initiatives. None of these have anything to do with providing actual health care and so the system suffers.

Sure, if you break your leg or have another reason to end up in Casualty, you won't have to pay for it but don't you think that is only fair enough in a democratised Western society who claims to uphold the basic human right to life? Apparently America doesn't think so. Who's fault is that? Yours.

We have every right to complain about something we pay for that doesn't work to anybody's satisfaction. The fact that we have it and you don't is utterly irrelevant.

For your information, the reason *why* you don't have it is because our government is, at least partly, Socialist. Certainly far more than yours is, what with America's tendency to think "Socialist = OMG COMMUNIST". If your country wasn't so concerned with having more money in their pockets, you guys may have voted into power a government willing to nationalise a few things other than their golf club buddy's bank.

Trot along now, sweetie :)
( Kroney, Fri 3 Oct 2008, 7:44, Reply)