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Usa people, having a NHS is awesome!

Most people in the UK (everyone aside from the uber rich) loves the NHS. I just want you all to know that when we look at you across the pond, we have no idea why some of you fight so vigorously against the idea of universal health care.

I just wanna say this because sometimes I hear Americans bad mouthing our health care system and sure, its a massive organization and like all huge organizations there are horrible mistakes, but you never ever hear of the 99.999% of the times when people are cured/saved.
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HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
Every person I have ever spoken to who has lived in the UK, has said the NHS is terrible. This includes people in England that I spoke to while there.

They universally said to me, "you Yanks are crazy if want health care like we have."
SW-User
@HoraceGreenley Everyone I have spoken to in the UK and I lived there for years are happy with it and do not even want it changed.
I think the Brits will tell you likewise, unless they are of the elitist variety with more than enough money to need to give a flying fig.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User not my experience. Universally hated
DrBenway · 61-69, M
@HoraceGreenley then you obviously meet an unrepresentative group of people.
DrBenway · 61-69, M
@HoraceGreenley yeah well, just look at the comments here. I rest my case.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@DrBenway doubtful
36 years, I've not once heard a brit say the health are would be better off been private.

We brits moan about everything that's true but actual people complaining about one of the best free health care services in the world? ... Your full of shit tbh
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@sdfdgsfasfdgsfasdasfsdgds I think you are. Look at the poster's profile picture.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@sdfdgsfasfdgsfasdasfsdgds Guy Fawkes making pro-British statements? Sounds fake to me.
@HoraceGreenley yer except I'm born, raised and lived my life here. So I kinda have first hand experience if this.

Heck even our incredibly right wing papers won't dare cross the public with NHS bashing.

Nobody here has claimed its perfect but to say its not loved by the majority of people of Britain is just wrong
SW-User
@sdfdgsfasfdgsfasdasfsdgds Yeah, you Pommies do like to whinge ;)
Joking aside, I honestly never in all my days heard a Brit or Kiwi or Ozzie wish to demolish their systems.
Its totally up to Americans whether they wish to have a similar system or not and how to fund it if so, but I doubt you'd find many in those nations with universal care willing to trade.
@SW-User bloody convicts!

Yer I mean the writings on the wall when one of the main lies the tories ran to get people to vote brexit was the money saved would go to help the NHS and gained a lot of support at the time kind of says it all about what people think.

America is free to do what it wants ofc but to claim its universally hated is quite insane lol
DrBenway · 61-69, M
@HoraceGreenley what is wrong with my profile pic?
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@DrBenway I don't buy it
Graylight · 51-55, F
@HoraceGreenley Everyone I've spoken to about healthcare in England or Canada loves it. Hands down across the board.

But let's keep being the richest country with deplorable healthcare, ranked 37th behind countries like Morocco, Andorra, Columbia and Greece. Let's be the industrialized nation and the 4th most dangerous place to bear a child. Let's keep spending exponentially more for less care. It's been working out so well.
[i]http://thepatientfactor.com/canadian-health-care-information/world-health-organizations-ranking-of-the-worlds-health-systems/[/i]
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Graylight It's because the USA pays full retail for pharmaceuticals while the rest of the world pays wholesale.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@HoraceGreenley look at any opinion poll on the NHS. I dare you. 😎
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Burnley123 I will. Right now I am stuck in traffic in Boston's hospital district. It's full of people from around the world who come here to get care they can't get at home.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@HoraceGreenley If you are rich, it's a great service. Good luck finding that poll.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Burnley123 True. If you have the money to buy the best health care you come to the US.
DrBenway · 61-69, M
@HoraceGreenley its not guy Fawkes BTW its Mr Quimper
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@DrBenway Thanks. That does me no good
luckranger71 · 51-55, M
Yeah I’m gonna call BS on this one. Polling is pretty clear that the NHS is popular. And I’ll see my English relatives next week and pass along their report. 😎