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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HootyTheNightOwl

Enjoy the NHS while you still have it - thanks to all the cutbacks, it's dying a slow and painful death... and it's possible that whatever remains will only be a mere shadow of the once wonderful organisation that we once had!!!

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@HootyTheNightOwl That is a worry. I'm pleased that more and more people are realising that Hunt's Primary Care bill was really about stealth privatisation. Government say they are protecting funding but nobody believes that now. The media massively under report this but people know. Everyone either knows someone who works in the NHS or uses it regularly and if people are prepared to fight, it can be saved.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Burnley123 Alberta went through this in the early 00s. Mass revolt stopped the privatization (or sidelining) of the public health care here.

HootyTheNightOwl

@Burnley123 It may already be too late for that, though. They already cherry picked some of the best bits of the NHS when they did the sell off.

We still have issues within the dentistry arm of the NHS with people who need a dentist being unable to find one

And, ever since Universal Credit became a thing, the NHS has no doubt wasted much more money than it has recouped by constantly writing to people asking them if they are entitled to free prescriptions. How much more of any funding increase do you think will be spent chasing some of the poorset members of society to force them to pay for prescriptions that they were entitled to for free in the first place???

Neither the Government or the media can be trusted any more and it's been that way for a long time now!!!

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@HootyTheNightOwl I don't think it's ever too late. It's a sliding scale. I can get better or worse over time. If people are resigned to it, then they want that.