You don't know what you are missing... I am getting a hernia operation, a simple operation which would cost me privately between £6000 - £10,000. On the NHS in UK i get this operation free and i only had to wait 5 weeks. For urgent operations like tumors or life threatening illnesses, treatment is performed immediately. We don't have to find jobs that offer medical insurance, dental insurance, benefits, because they are provided to us for free by the Government. Expensive medicines for rare diseases are also paid for. People don't have to live in the fear that their houses will be reposessed as a consequence of the debt incurred by having a family member fall ill. If we are out on the street and we get sick, we are treated until we are better, no proof of insurance is needed, we are just treated. Please explain to me, because i am sure you have your reasons, what seems bad about this system?
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I don't know about the UK, but in the US, everything the government does is done quite poorly and at great taxpayer expense. Govenment run housing is little more than slums. Govenment run schools are among the worst in the developed world. Govenment run veterans hospitals offer the worst medical care in the country. American are highly supicious when it is claimed that the government system will be better, based on poor past perfomance of other government run enterprises.
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