Comment by louthy
3 days ago
> by relying on "connections"
That's just corruption. That's not equitable. In the UK that would be criminal and there's pretty much no way to game the system. That doesn't mean there aren't queues, but nobody gets a preference.
Indeed, however it is big part of the culture and people do not see it as such (when people complain about corruption here, I just ask them if they've done something like this in the past, and they shut up or say how everyone does it — for those of us who feel internal shame even thinking of doing this, we get left behind).
But I did hear good things about UK public health system as being one of the best working public healthcare systems, even if no system is perfect.