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0 pointstomtheelder3y ago0 comments

I mean I could tell almost the exact same anecdote from when I had to have my appendix out in the US. The key difference is that I ended up with a fucking insane bill to pay at the end of all of it.

Plus the NHS was better historically. The conservatives have been playing starve the beast with it, and Labor is about as impotent as the Dems are in the US.

Either way they still spend less and have better outcomes, so that part at least isn't very complex.

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seibelj3y ago

Is it at-all possible that either

1) it isn’t the conservatives but a larger systemic issue

2) healthcare is, like all services, a market-based system where the highest-skilled gravitate towards the private sector, the highest-wealth gravitate to the private sector, and the poor / poorly skilled / the selfless use the socialized system that can never serve the needs of all the people at a below-market cost?

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seibelj3y ago

Is it at-all possible that either

1) it isn’t the conservatives but a larger systemic issue

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