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Comment by jgalt212

9 hours ago

The UK has socialized healthcare, and that's not going so well. Societies excel at stuff they prioritize. Pretty much all societies don't prioritize other people's tragedies.

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stavros  9 hours ago

It's definitely going better than the US, where you basically need to beg people for treatment money. I'm not sure what "not going so well" means, in that regard, since virtually every other developed country is doing better than the US on this.

  • jgalt212  9 hours ago

    90 minutes for an ambulance seems like a systemic failure.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-64254249

    • superultra  9 hours ago

      I’ve lived in both Canada and the US. My grandma in Canada had to wait 9 months for a hip replacement. Even though the government provided help with paid aids, it was not a great situation.

      My mom here in the states needs a hip replacement and she can’t afford it because she’s maxed Medicare.

      You mentioned ambulance. My wife called an ambulance for our kid who tripped on something at a park and a rather hysterical person told her she needed to call an ambulance right away. Pressured, she did so; our kid was fine. But we then owed $3,500 for the ambulance. Though we were paying on a payment plan and never missed a payment, the bill got turned over to collections for some unknown reason. We got it sorted it out but it took about 15 hours of work to resolve and fix our credit.

      I’ve found that my Canadian relatives complain often about the system but very few seem to truly understand what is good about that system.

      Pick your poison. Like many things here in the US, healthcare in the US is great if you have money, bad if you don’t.

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jrjeksjd8d  9 hours ago

The NHS is suffering because of cuts from conservative vultures. They're following the playbook of American conservatives like Grover Norquist:

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."