The NHS is one of the greatest humanistic projects ever undertaken
and I'll stand by that statement no matter how much of a cunt it makes me sound. Nobody should be profiteering off peoples' lives and health. The "facts" you've given are nothing but propaganda spread by a Government that doesn't want to pay for its' voters health. That's despite the fact that the NHS is paid for by the people who use it, through taxation.

The fact is that the NHS is an idea that will probably never take off in the US because doctors, corporations and even politicians have got used to getting rich and fat out of working in medicine; whereas the people who it would benefit are fed utter crap to them and forced to take out insurance that they often can't really afford in order to access any real kind of medical care that should be theirs by right.

Aneurin Bevin, the architect of the NHS, really ought to have more attributed to him than one smallish statue in Cardiff.

And yeah, I am a pinko, commie Euro-weenie :P
( Kroney, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 12:26, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

It's not as much the Doctors as the insurance companies
A lot of Doctors really want a simple national system. They have to spend lots of money on personnel to fill out confusing and obfuscatory insurance forms for each patient in order to get any money.

Industry to a great extent owns much of the US government especially the right wing who spend their energy and lies supporting an insurance industry that pays millions to its top executives while dropping people off of their policies in order to maintain profitability instead of actually paying of the medical coverage they advertise that they cover.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 13:05, Reply)