Yet another failure for socialized medicine or anything else.

[Galen]

(08-13-2018, 01:30 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-12-2018, 03:35 AM)Galen Wrote: The British NHS wait lists are getting so bad that patients are going to private providers.  It would no doubt be worse without the private sector which mysteriously manages to avoid these kinds of problems.

Here is a defector from the Soviet Union to explain how bad socialized medicine can get.  This is particularly true when there is no private sector to go to which was the case in the Soviet Union.

The NHS is, and has been, dramatically underfunded by the Tories who would love to kill it if they can.  An increase in funding was just approved, because the public demanded it.  Note: the UK only spends ~9% of GDP on healthcare.  The US spends ~17% for worse overall health results.  Also noteworthy: British subjects love their NHS, and wonder what we are thinking with our system.

Wait lists are endemic to socialized medicine and noticed that you did provide any references about the relative costs of medical care in he US.  Here is one example how government regulation increases the cost of medical care in the US. Imagine what the other tens of thousands pages laws and regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations are doing to the cost of health care.






For those of you with some intellectual curiosity might actually want to spend some time reading his recently published book on the Progressive Era.  It is interesting how often it was established players were the ones asking for regulation.