"America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well...all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!"
lol What a one sided bullshit report. The stats speak for themselves. The UK spends less than HALF as much money on healthcare per person and yet has a HIGHER average life expectancy than the USA.
CNN must be paid by healthcare insurance companies.
Bollocks! You never are out of the NHS. Going private does not take you out of the NHS system. How can CNN call this great reporting when she does not even have her facts straight? She ought to be sacked!!
Quoting from the video "is okay if you are not sick or very sick"... What an asshole that guy is! The NHS is there exactly for when you are sick and works best of all when you are very very sick!!! How can you expect a man from an American agency funded by corporations not stated to know about a service he has probably never used is beyond me.
Haha, wonder how you 'opt-out' of the NHS? American health care is harrowing, 50 million without any health care!
The NHS doesn't cover everything, but you can go private if you can't get cancer drugs, what they wont tell you is if you have cancer in the US, your lucky to even get insurance, thus lucky to get healthcare (watch Michael Moore's Sicko!)
Our system costs a lot less than your system, we are healtheir and live longer.
But somehow our system is bad?
American propaganda at its best lol
We moan about it a lot, this is the UK. We take it for granted as we've had it 63 years and no-one can understand how its possible to have a system like the US.
You dont have to opt out of the NHS if you go private...total lie.
The NHS promotes preventative care, ie go to doctors for minor ailments before they become major /life threatening / cancer.
The NHS does need work that doesn't mean it's bad it means it's a B student that could be an A if it only got it's act together. We feel it needs to provide a better service because we pay for it every day of our working lives, and so when we need it we expect it to be good and sometimes it's not as good as we feel it should be.
You don't have to opt out of the NHS to go private that's just bull. What isn't bull is that to put this through in America they need to take their time.
My mum was in a massive car accident (head on at 60mph). She broke both legs in 7 places, broken hip, broken multiple ribs, punctured left lung and had a 6 inch divot gouged out of her lower left leg by the clutch pedal. NHS response? Airlifted to hospital where some of the world's leading surgeons worked on her for 18 hours, putting her back together, together with a hip & knee replacement. Thereafter, 4 months in a trauma ward getting 24/7 care.
@MortonJack94 What is really is about is medical company's and medical insurance company's in the US withdrawing their advertising if the tv channel airs anything to do with a free health care system.
That's why they slate the rest of the worlds health care services such as Britain's, France's,Canada's, Norway, etc so people are scared off from even thinking of having a universal health care system.
@MrVillamike True, just wish the american media would trying to stick words in our mouths,we love the NHS and its not like some sort of Communist throwback it is the best healthcare hence why Britain is ranked far above the US in WHO ratings, it's a wonder by Americans still believe the lies fed to them by US medical Firms
I never usually comment on youtube. I had to sign into my old account to comment on this. Well. I had many operations when I was born. Born with a hole in my heart. My doctor was one of the world's leading specialists. This was in 1989. My operation would have cost 100k+ in America. It would have been likely that I might have not been able to recieve insurance for my operation in America. NHS is amazing. Most private health care can't afford to perform serious operations, so go back 2 bed USA.
Hurray for the impartiality laws that keeps this drivel, and one sided " I have brought you, so represent my views" reporting off the UK's broadcasting media!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It has been said many times the NHS is the closest thing the the UK has to a religion, and it may have problems and issues, but if anything was to threaten the NHS the whole country would be marching on downing street in order to save it!!!
What a load of lies, I pay a little extra a month for private healthcare through work, not because I dont like the NHS, I do! The NHS has saved my life on two occassions now but its there and I might aswell have it as an extra blanket incase I ever need it.
We aren't entirely happy with this system? I think you will find for the most part we are. Can you say propaganda? I've had my life saved twice by the NHS for free. I call that a fair deal. You also don't have to opt out of the NHS if you want to use private healthcare. That's either a bare faced lie or an error. When a doctor gives you a diagnosis (for free pretty much), you can choose NHS or private care. Whichever you choose, you can use all or any part of the NHS should you change your mind.
America, there is proof in this video that you're media is lying. At 00:23 she says "all health services are publically founded by the national health service". There are many private hospitals and surgeries all around the UK.
Peter Pitts of the CMPI - an offshoot of the PRI which, as their website states "promotes the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility... best encouraged through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government."
So he'll have an impartial view then.
These pressure groups should not be permitted to get away with implying they are independent research groups. And CNN should not imply it either.
TRUST me this guy is lying 90 per cent of people love the NHS . If u break ur arm go to hospital ,wait for about 30 mins then u will have x-rays done,cast put on ur arm and given free painkillers doing this means all complications that could happened are limited. The reason america spends more is because they are leaving injures for so long that emergency treatment needed and everybody knows u should try and prevent not just treat injuries after the fact thats why u spend more
Don't the fascist american capitalist talk a lot of bollox. All capitalism is good for is removing money from the services they run. BTW private healthcare does not mean you withdraw from the NHS it is run along side as an option. Another thing with universal healthcare you are not denied treatment because of pre-existing conditions. One day America may even enter the 20th century.
yeah im fucked off with facist yanky twats sticking there oar in how we do things over here,you are the fuckers who are in debt thanks to the excesses of wall street.And you infected us with it too did'nt you.
Ask the 46,000,000 Americans that are denied private healthcare or simply cannot afford it if they want the NHS in America. People in the UK are not opting out of the NHS they are taking out private healthcare alongside the NHS in order to queue jump because the private finance initiative is sucking money out of the NHS. NHS=care for everyone, private healthcare= care for those that can afford it
45 Million Americans can't even Afford to get Morphine for Relatives with Cancer , never mind 'cutting edge' drugs.. private Healthcare can also be used if you want it...no problem. I owe my Daughters Life to our NHS NO Question about it, so I ain't Grumbling!
Actually i've worked in the NHS, and the one size fits all is ball. We have to come up with new treatment plans dependant on the patient. We have the NICE guidlines, but these can be changed and adapted by the autonimous practitioner. The reason some drugs aren't included is due to how expensive the drug is, these new drug treatments can cost ridiculous amounts, which in the US to get you have to have an amasing very expensive health care plan.
The guy talking (centre for medicine in th e....) works for the drugs industry ! It's a lobbying organisation, not a neutral organisation at all. The 57% is rubbish, 86% are happy to v. happy with the NHS. It's not perfect but better than the US system. The Pitt perosn is a stodge and works for th epharmaceutical, so can't be used as a honest broker or a reliable source of facts.
I have to agree with other posters that just because 57% of Britons say that the NHS needs reformed doesn't mean that we dislike it or want it gone. And what is about having to opt out of the NHS so you can use private healthcare? Also mediocre healthcare? I am getting very annoyed at all these inaccuracies about the NHS being reported by the American media & politicians and they wonder why we got angry at the time!
Woah woah woah - You don't have to opt out of the NHS to get private medical coverage, where did they get that from? My parents pay for private coverage, our family is lucky enough to be able to use it when we choose to, but we still use our NHS doctor for almost everything.
If the British system is 'mediocre' then the US system is far inferior. I have private healthcare in the US and have to say that I am very disappointed with the system. They over prescribe drugs that arent needed, they deny many required procedures, the doctors don't make house visits and it all costs way too much not to mention that life expectancy in the US is less than in the Uk not to mention many European countries.
Americans really have settled for mediocrity in my opinion.
Such bad reporting. They fail to say that the vast majority of people who want change to the NHS would never want ANYTHING like private American healthcare.
Also its odd how US media focuses on UK healthcare as 'what its like.' why not focus on Sweden or another country who has social healthcare which works a lot better.
wHAT AN ODD LIE, SHE CLAIMED YOU HAD TO "OPT OUT" OF THE nhs SYSTEM. THIS IS COMPLETE RUBBISH. (caps off), sorry. Why jus tmake stuff up..irdiculous lie.
"This is nat a simple issue" says the newsreader guy. Actually, it is pretty simple; Do you think only rich people should be healthy or do you think everyone has a right to be healthy?
we have some of the best surgens in world, training them to go all over the world. We have the most advanced childrens hospital in the world, Great Ormand Street Hostpital and i'm so proud of the NHS. yeah it could do with some upgrades but in the financial climate we're in i believe that it is awsome.
I'm tired of the American media misrepresenting British Health care, no one denies there are improvements to be made in the system but the U.S always mis the real point of the NHS- that developed nations have a responsability to make something so important as health care available to ALL - not only to those who can afford it, the British consider the NHS one of the most important parts of our countrys structure if any goverment tried to get rid of it they'd be taken down.
"Anyone taking out private insurance must opt-out of the National healthcare system "? Not true, ALL UK citizens are automatically members of the NHS regardless. "The last decade private companies have used private insurance as a job perk"? Well, private medical insurance as always been a "perk" in some companies for those in executive or managerial positions ever since the first days of the NHS .
How blind Americans are to matters relating to health. 24/25 of the most industrialised nations have some form of universal health care because they think it is the right thing to do and more importantly, it is the cheapest form of delivery. I would not be writing this were it not for the NHS. I spent three months as a child in hospital with blood poisoning. Our NHS is precious, generally effecient, and we Brits are proud of it.
The UK has freedom of choice we can go private if we wish, we have more freedom than the land of the supposed free. We are free from the of fear of health costs. An 11-country survey focusing on health care access, cost, and insurance coverage found that adults in the United States are by far the most likely to go without care because of costs, have trouble paying medical bills, encounter high medical bills even when insured, and have disputes with insurers or payments denied
When you take away Freedom of Choice you take away incentive and your left with the British NHS. Where there's no incentive to improve because they're the only game in town the government. And you get Waiting Lists.
Im NOW Anti-American, the US right wing are not just mocking, disparaging, & openly lying about our British National Health Servisce. They are insulting the integrity of the people of the United Kingdom by implying we kill babys and the old as the NHS won't waste money on them. I'm just glad if I have to go to hospital I WILL NEVER BE DENIED TREATMENT and dumped into a Taxi and left on skid row in a hospital gown.
"Mediocre care for everybody"?! My British Arse! I have never had a problem with the N.H.S. and neither has anyone in my family. I have had two family members with cancerous ailments, all dealt with on the N.H.S. quickly and efficiently.
Here's what CNN is trying to tell us: Even though Britons live longer, are all covered for free, and are spending less as a nation on health care, don't envy them because AMERICA ISN'T GOING TO GET YOU GUYS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ANYTIME SOON!! Ignorance is bliss, right???
How can america argue against universal healthcare? It makes no sense whatsoever! Surely even mediocre healthcare is better than none, not that I think the NHS is mediocre, it saved my mum's, dad's, brother's and my own life. Private hospitals wont just magicly dissapear if free state hospitals are introduced, there will always be people with anough money for so called 'better' care. The only reason why healthcare is argued against is that it would impact on the profits of the private hospitals.
"If you have private cover you have to opt out of the NHS". What rubbish- my NHS doctor referred me to a private hospital and monitored my treatment there, the only reason it was done privately was speed and convenience- the 'private' doctor worked at the local NHS hospital too! I can still get NHS treatment when I need it no issues.
@Trustisaliability those bullshit cutting edge treatments saved my mom and dads life from cancer.fuck off you ignorant brit.you think you are so much better than everyone else. fucking limey cunts.you are no better than anyone else.
Yes 60% of us think the NHS needs some more money.
That doesn't mean we want to get rid of it.
"Mediocre care for everybody", well sorry if you don't get the 5star treatment, but I'd rather have treatment at all rather than paying extortionate rates to get hotel like service. I want treatment not a holiday.
@Trustisaliability I get both at only 160 a month.my healthcare is very affordable as it is for most people.85 percent of americans are covered.millions don't want health insurance.
What a load of crap: "medicre" healthcare? And yet we have a longer life expectancy, lower infant and maternal mortality and most importantly UNIVERSAL coverage. There are some things in life that are a fundamental right and access to healthcare is one of them. It is a discrace the way the US has treated it's own citizens over the years.
Well done Obama for what you have acheived so far - keep pushing!
Does that mean you're going to be extending this right to millions of africans? Doubtful, as you'd have sold everything you owned and lived a subsistence lifestyle so they could have this right too.
If not, you're either racist or don't really consider it a right at all.
@melonmatt look at canada.if you want a family doctor you need to win a lottery.universal healthcare leads to rationing and mediocre service.my insurance is 160 a month.anyone who wants health insurance can afford it.millions of young americans don't want it.they say it is a waste of money.
The fundamental change that is NHS needs is..... MORE MONEY, we want our tax money to go to to NHS, not to bombing some distant Country, or paying for some politician's 3rd home.
This report is biased on an unbelievable level, the stuff that doesn't get paid for is the untested stuff.
They don't want to give a cancer patient trial drugs which end up killing them. Which is understandable.
It is clear that this report is not in favour of Health care.
Lies lies lies, and more lies. And- 'the British system of muddling through'. Say WHAT!???
Seriously Americans. If you want to reform your OWN system, with a completely different system that ours, don't start trashing ours for no reason- with bad reporting. And what is this 'anyone taking on private health care has to opt out of the NHS'....?
What!!!!!!! B-ollocks.
I've HAD private health care here. You do NOT have to opt out of the NHS to get it.
you do not need to opt out of the NHS to recieve Private Health Care- TOTALLY WRONG CNN!!! I am on NHS and private health care and there are no problems. CNN, sack your researchers!
Peter could be so lucky to have our health care system. Cutting edge health care system in the USA? LOL please your insurance companies deny people coverage and let people die. Opt out of the NHS, lol then I guess they don't get emergency treatment since they don't pay for it. Private hospitals don't have emergency rooms.
Don't worry. Lou Dobbs is no longer on the air. Plus the bill passed. Lou was the only crazy right winger on CNN. As an American, I know that NHS may have problems, nothings perfect. But, it's a hell of a lot better then what we have here. My dad has a "Cadillac" health plan as they call it here, basically VERY GOOD insurance. Now that the bill passed I can go back on his plan payed for by his company until I'm 26 instead of having to pay $100s every month of my own money for a crappy plan.
@AnimeAramis1 It's America, it doesn't matter. They can tell lies about anyone because if you disagree, they'll just invade you, fuck the shit out of your country's customs and beliefs and then build a military base on top of it.
60% of the British the public probably do think the NHS needs improvement, even i do, but that doesn't mean it's bad or it doesn't work, just that like everything it could be better. Im sure a large percentage of people think that the US road network needs improvement, for example, but that doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with it. Finally i can confidentially say that 99.999999% of British, and citizens other Universal Healthcare countries, would have it over the US system, any day!
GO WATCH FOX NEWS! ARE YOU SAYING THOSE STATISTICS ARE LIES? LOLOLOOLOOLO9LOO9LOL YOU CANT TAKE THE TRUTH CAN YOU?......................USA HEALTHCARE. Epic Fail.
it is true that many people wish reform to uk healthcare however the majority opinion does not wish to see a change to universal access publicly funded by taxation. it is an absolute institution in the uk and detrimental change to its principles will see any government being discarded by the electorate. also private care does not require opting out change from the nhs, it is complementary, a recent change and the correct one in my view.
load og crap, only the rich americans are slagging of the nhs, because they dont want to pay abit extra in taxs n wud rather the poor people would just die in the street and people go bankrupt. its shocking that the U.S is so far behind much of the world on heathcare. The NHS is not totally perfect but improvement are being made all the time
The fact that 57% of Britons want reform is a moot point. That's not 57% that dislike the system; it's 57% that believe it can be better. If you survey Britons on whether they would rather have private healthcare over public, the responses would be very heavily in favour of public. And that's true in any other country with a well-functioning public system.
Also, the idea that British healthcare is "mediocre" is just one pundit's opinion.
@cassidy99ful Where do you get these "facts"? LOL. The vast majority of people in all the Western countries with public healthcare DO NOT want to lose it. They DO NOT see private healthcare as a better alternative. That's the only undeniable "fact" in this debate. You are just too affected by the propaganda wars in your country to realize how the rest of the world feels.
Did Stephen Hawkins get mediocre care? No. And neither do all other Brits. We get good health care. And at a terrifficly good price.
I don't know where CNN gets its facts but satisfaction with NHS is way high today. 90% satisfied and 10% not. Not as bad they say here. Also people use private and NHS care all the time so the comment the woman makes is ignorant bulls***. You cannot even get a private insurer to pay for a GP visit!!
cnn= pile of shit what they said is wrong 89% of people of the UK love the NHS there are problems as people know but we are sorting them out at least in britian we dont go bankrupt through health care and the fact that the UK is ranked 18th over america contridicts this video and also that the average male in the UK lives 2 years long than americans also contridicts the video
what? no, wrong. Their was a period during the 80s it went downhill but that was due to Margaret Thatcher's policies on the NHS what the conservatives admit was a horrible mistake and never be repeated.
The NHS is a much much better health care system then the stupid american MHOs. The quality of health care in alot of countries has been questioned time and time again and each time the american HMOs are easily crushed by the NHS in everything but some preventative measures. quality? NHS wins
RUBBISH AHHHHH SUCH LIES!!!! NHS IS FANTASTIC! 95% of people think its fatastic. EVERYTING IS PAID FOR EVERYTHING ALL THINGS ARE INCLUDED ALL THINGS ARE REINBURSED.
According to the World Health Organization US health care is ranked 37th worldwide while Great Britain ranks 18th. It's interesting that cancer treatment is mentioned because that is the single aspect of US health care which is better than Britain or Europe. As far as I'm aware the US is the only industrialized nation which refuses medical care to its citizens.
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"America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well...all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!"
Charlie12241 1 week ago
lol What a one sided bullshit report. The stats speak for themselves. The UK spends less than HALF as much money on healthcare per person and yet has a HIGHER average life expectancy than the USA.
CNN must be paid by healthcare insurance companies.
HudsonMayBeRight 1 month ago
Mediocre care???? fuck off yanks, the British health care system is second to none.
MrVillamike 1 month ago 3
Surely the part where the average life expectancy in in the UK is 77 and the average in the US is 75 says it all?
mikewts 1 month ago
I like how they cut that short before it compares the Doctors:Patients ratio. I'm guessing it's better in the UK than the US then?
marquoth 1 month ago
This is fucking infuriating NHS IS AMAZING FUCK THE US HEALTHCARE!
TheWougi 1 month ago
OH WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF OUR HEALTH SERVICE YOU IDIOTS?
EarlRegent 1 month ago
Bollocks! You never are out of the NHS. Going private does not take you out of the NHS system. How can CNN call this great reporting when she does not even have her facts straight? She ought to be sacked!!
hauskalainen 1 month ago 2
Quoting from the video "is okay if you are not sick or very sick"... What an asshole that guy is! The NHS is there exactly for when you are sick and works best of all when you are very very sick!!! How can you expect a man from an American agency funded by corporations not stated to know about a service he has probably never used is beyond me.
hauskalainen 1 month ago
LIES! You are not opted out from NHS care if you pay for private
JamesTilsley1 1 month ago
i wonder which Health Insurer sponsored this segment...
catchthewave91 1 month ago 2
The NHS is like a parent, we complain about them a lot but we couldn't do without them.
alanthe2 1 month ago
I've never seen such biased, totally one sided, opinionated 'news reporting' in my life
HiddenPineapple 1 month ago
Haha, wonder how you 'opt-out' of the NHS? American health care is harrowing, 50 million without any health care!
The NHS doesn't cover everything, but you can go private if you can't get cancer drugs, what they wont tell you is if you have cancer in the US, your lucky to even get insurance, thus lucky to get healthcare (watch Michael Moore's Sicko!)
fso520 1 month ago
Our system costs a lot less than your system, we are healtheir and live longer.
But somehow our system is bad?
American propaganda at its best lol
We moan about it a lot, this is the UK. We take it for granted as we've had it 63 years and no-one can understand how its possible to have a system like the US.
You dont have to opt out of the NHS if you go private...total lie.
The NHS promotes preventative care, ie go to doctors for minor ailments before they become major /life threatening / cancer.
johnnycarrotheid 1 month ago
The NHS does need work that doesn't mean it's bad it means it's a B student that could be an A if it only got it's act together. We feel it needs to provide a better service because we pay for it every day of our working lives, and so when we need it we expect it to be good and sometimes it's not as good as we feel it should be.
You don't have to opt out of the NHS to go private that's just bull. What isn't bull is that to put this through in America they need to take their time.
fayers189 1 month ago
My mum was in a massive car accident (head on at 60mph). She broke both legs in 7 places, broken hip, broken multiple ribs, punctured left lung and had a 6 inch divot gouged out of her lower left leg by the clutch pedal. NHS response? Airlifted to hospital where some of the world's leading surgeons worked on her for 18 hours, putting her back together, together with a hip & knee replacement. Thereafter, 4 months in a trauma ward getting 24/7 care.
Cost to her? £0.00
LONG LIVE THE NHS
ebyard 1 month ago 2
Americans are ridiculous trying to dupe their populations into spilling money into greedy US medical firms
MortonJack94 1 month ago 2
@MortonJack94 What is really is about is medical company's and medical insurance company's in the US withdrawing their advertising if the tv channel airs anything to do with a free health care system.
That's why they slate the rest of the worlds health care services such as Britain's, France's,Canada's, Norway, etc so people are scared off from even thinking of having a universal health care system.
Hurrah for capitalism eh!!
MrVillamike 1 month ago
@MrVillamike True, just wish the american media would trying to stick words in our mouths,we love the NHS and its not like some sort of Communist throwback it is the best healthcare hence why Britain is ranked far above the US in WHO ratings, it's a wonder by Americans still believe the lies fed to them by US medical Firms
MortonJack94 1 month ago
I never usually comment on youtube. I had to sign into my old account to comment on this. Well. I had many operations when I was born. Born with a hole in my heart. My doctor was one of the world's leading specialists. This was in 1989. My operation would have cost 100k+ in America. It would have been likely that I might have not been able to recieve insurance for my operation in America. NHS is amazing. Most private health care can't afford to perform serious operations, so go back 2 bed USA.
Unchumbapunk 1 month ago 2
Hurray for the impartiality laws that keeps this drivel, and one sided " I have brought you, so represent my views" reporting off the UK's broadcasting media!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It has been said many times the NHS is the closest thing the the UK has to a religion, and it may have problems and issues, but if anything was to threaten the NHS the whole country would be marching on downing street in order to save it!!!
LONG LIVE THE NHS!!!!
RLSSpeedy1989 1 month ago
What a load of lies, I pay a little extra a month for private healthcare through work, not because I dont like the NHS, I do! The NHS has saved my life on two occassions now but its there and I might aswell have it as an extra blanket incase I ever need it.
Radman23078 1 month ago
"Cutting edge treatments" is just another term for treatment that is still in its experimental stages and has not yet been proven.
Yubera2K10 1 month ago
We aren't entirely happy with this system? I think you will find for the most part we are. Can you say propaganda? I've had my life saved twice by the NHS for free. I call that a fair deal. You also don't have to opt out of the NHS if you want to use private healthcare. That's either a bare faced lie or an error. When a doctor gives you a diagnosis (for free pretty much), you can choose NHS or private care. Whichever you choose, you can use all or any part of the NHS should you change your mind.
KidRiviera 1 month ago
This is an utter load of bollocks.
MonochromeHyStErIa 1 month ago 2
American propaganda bollocks. Thanks but no thanks, we'll keep our NHS and you can keep what every AmeriCUNT system you got there.
brumbloke 1 month ago 4
N.H.S = nice lol if i see any more lies today ill go mad :D
Vault87Fallout 2 months ago
Yes, practically everyone here is happy with it. I haven't met anyone who disagrees with it.
TehOrkyMan 2 months ago
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit and more bullshit. The NHS is fantastic and I would not swap it for the USA's system for any amount of money.
NightmareCinemaChild 2 months ago 3
America, there is proof in this video that you're media is lying. At 00:23 she says "all health services are publically founded by the national health service". There are many private hospitals and surgeries all around the UK.
ssssroryssss 2 months ago
Peter Pitts: "...mediocre care for everybody"
Peter Pitts of the CMPI - an offshoot of the PRI which, as their website states "promotes the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility... best encouraged through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government."
So he'll have an impartial view then.
These pressure groups should not be permitted to get away with implying they are independent research groups. And CNN should not imply it either.
TheCasualObservers 3 months ago
CNN Lies
wickerman1 3 months ago
Total lie, I mean okay it aint perfect but more or less the NHS is the best Healthcare in the world.
SickPuppyBeatz 3 months ago
60% want change, total lie...The NHS is beloved.
TheIdiotBoxUK 3 months ago 3
Haha you don't have to leave the NHS if you go private in the UK, idiots.
kerouac50 3 months ago 2
at least when i go to hospital - iw ont be rejected or come out broke. thank Whitlam for medicare australia. :D
mmann66666 4 months ago
@mmann66666 actually and I hate to say this but it was Fraser who got us Medicare, Whitlam got us Medibank which the Liberals privatised it
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
TRUST me this guy is lying 90 per cent of people love the NHS . If u break ur arm go to hospital ,wait for about 30 mins then u will have x-rays done,cast put on ur arm and given free painkillers doing this means all complications that could happened are limited. The reason america spends more is because they are leaving injures for so long that emergency treatment needed and everybody knows u should try and prevent not just treat injuries after the fact thats why u spend more
ruthio1 4 months ago 2
Don't the fascist american capitalist talk a lot of bollox. All capitalism is good for is removing money from the services they run. BTW private healthcare does not mean you withdraw from the NHS it is run along side as an option. Another thing with universal healthcare you are not denied treatment because of pre-existing conditions. One day America may even enter the 20th century.
balderdashandpiffle 4 months ago 2
it is not perfect, but better than in America.
britainmalbangkok 4 months ago
yeah im fucked off with facist yanky twats sticking there oar in how we do things over here,you are the fuckers who are in debt thanks to the excesses of wall street.And you infected us with it too did'nt you.
Doversreturn 4 months ago
Ask the 46,000,000 Americans that are denied private healthcare or simply cannot afford it if they want the NHS in America. People in the UK are not opting out of the NHS they are taking out private healthcare alongside the NHS in order to queue jump because the private finance initiative is sucking money out of the NHS. NHS=care for everyone, private healthcare= care for those that can afford it
bowserdogg 4 months ago
thing is there is the private option if you want it
marcusantonio91 4 months ago
Wat Horse Shit
MrMrpeanut94 4 months ago
this is bullshit
sprPee 4 months ago
Hahaha! Americans. I cant name a single peson that dislikes the NHS. Not one. That says it all. Its literally the number one prooroty of this country
weezer316 5 months ago
Wow i've never watched so much BS on youtube in all my life haha..
Thank fuck we have the NHS, imagine getting run over by a car then worrying about BILLS, like the Yanks do LOL
slothgoonies 5 months ago
45 Million Americans can't even Afford to get Morphine for Relatives with Cancer , never mind 'cutting edge' drugs.. private Healthcare can also be used if you want it...no problem. I owe my Daughters Life to our NHS NO Question about it, so I ain't Grumbling!
wind4watts 5 months ago
What a load of biased bullshit. I dare you to find someone in Britain that wants to remove the NHS. Fucking American idiots, master trolls.
thatguywiththeegg 6 months ago 2
Actually i've worked in the NHS, and the one size fits all is ball. We have to come up with new treatment plans dependant on the patient. We have the NICE guidlines, but these can be changed and adapted by the autonimous practitioner. The reason some drugs aren't included is due to how expensive the drug is, these new drug treatments can cost ridiculous amounts, which in the US to get you have to have an amasing very expensive health care plan.
TiberJai 6 months ago
The guy talking (centre for medicine in th e....) works for the drugs industry ! It's a lobbying organisation, not a neutral organisation at all. The 57% is rubbish, 86% are happy to v. happy with the NHS. It's not perfect but better than the US system. The Pitt perosn is a stodge and works for th epharmaceutical, so can't be used as a honest broker or a reliable source of facts.
bakersteven3 6 months ago
I have to agree with other posters that just because 57% of Britons say that the NHS needs reformed doesn't mean that we dislike it or want it gone. And what is about having to opt out of the NHS so you can use private healthcare? Also mediocre healthcare? I am getting very annoyed at all these inaccuracies about the NHS being reported by the American media & politicians and they wonder why we got angry at the time!
Micropot 6 months ago
Woah woah woah - You don't have to opt out of the NHS to get private medical coverage, where did they get that from? My parents pay for private coverage, our family is lucky enough to be able to use it when we choose to, but we still use our NHS doctor for almost everything.
ow4744 6 months ago
If the British system is 'mediocre' then the US system is far inferior. I have private healthcare in the US and have to say that I am very disappointed with the system. They over prescribe drugs that arent needed, they deny many required procedures, the doctors don't make house visits and it all costs way too much not to mention that life expectancy in the US is less than in the Uk not to mention many European countries.
Americans really have settled for mediocrity in my opinion.
terder123 8 months ago
Such bad reporting. They fail to say that the vast majority of people who want change to the NHS would never want ANYTHING like private American healthcare.
Also its odd how US media focuses on UK healthcare as 'what its like.' why not focus on Sweden or another country who has social healthcare which works a lot better.
lgwguy 8 months ago
wHAT AN ODD LIE, SHE CLAIMED YOU HAD TO "OPT OUT" OF THE nhs SYSTEM. THIS IS COMPLETE RUBBISH. (caps off), sorry. Why jus tmake stuff up..irdiculous lie.
bakersteven3 8 months ago
"This is nat a simple issue" says the newsreader guy. Actually, it is pretty simple; Do you think only rich people should be healthy or do you think everyone has a right to be healthy?
blackmichael75 8 months ago
we have some of the best surgens in world, training them to go all over the world. We have the most advanced childrens hospital in the world, Great Ormand Street Hostpital and i'm so proud of the NHS. yeah it could do with some upgrades but in the financial climate we're in i believe that it is awsome.
duncdohntuz 9 months ago
british healthcare is better than american healthcare
oberoth111 9 months ago 40
I'm tired of the American media misrepresenting British Health care, no one denies there are improvements to be made in the system but the U.S always mis the real point of the NHS- that developed nations have a responsability to make something so important as health care available to ALL - not only to those who can afford it, the British consider the NHS one of the most important parts of our countrys structure if any goverment tried to get rid of it they'd be taken down.
oscarbrown18 9 months ago
How terrible.
Karateworm 1 year ago
"Anyone taking out private insurance must opt-out of the National healthcare system "? Not true, ALL UK citizens are automatically members of the NHS regardless. "The last decade private companies have used private insurance as a job perk"? Well, private medical insurance as always been a "perk" in some companies for those in executive or managerial positions ever since the first days of the NHS .
davijeph 1 year ago
How blind Americans are to matters relating to health. 24/25 of the most industrialised nations have some form of universal health care because they think it is the right thing to do and more importantly, it is the cheapest form of delivery. I would not be writing this were it not for the NHS. I spent three months as a child in hospital with blood poisoning. Our NHS is precious, generally effecient, and we Brits are proud of it.
Pinnertop 1 year ago
'The classic British trait of muddling through...' Fuck off you cunt.
Eddgravaged 1 year ago
The UK has freedom of choice we can go private if we wish, we have more freedom than the land of the supposed free. We are free from the of fear of health costs. An 11-country survey focusing on health care access, cost, and insurance coverage found that adults in the United States are by far the most likely to go without care because of costs, have trouble paying medical bills, encounter high medical bills even when insured, and have disputes with insurers or payments denied
davijeph 1 year ago
When you take away Freedom of Choice you take away incentive and your left with the British NHS. Where there's no incentive to improve because they're the only game in town the government. And you get Waiting Lists.
FRSFreeStateES 1 year ago
Im NOW Anti-American, the US right wing are not just mocking, disparaging, & openly lying about our British National Health Servisce. They are insulting the integrity of the people of the United Kingdom by implying we kill babys and the old as the NHS won't waste money on them. I'm just glad if I have to go to hospital I WILL NEVER BE DENIED TREATMENT and dumped into a Taxi and left on skid row in a hospital gown.
fdx840 1 year ago 2
yeh to get private healthcare you have to opt out of the NHS .. yeh thats pefectly true!!!
what a load of bollocks!
GeorgeP823 1 year ago
Wow nice cut off. Guess they also failed to mention that the British ranking for healthcare by WHO is almost 20 places higher than the US.
FSEffect 1 year ago
Yes, a pile of hog pooooo
Where on earth did they get this crap from?
You can't opt out of the NHS!!!
Simpricess 1 year ago
Yes, a pile of hog pooooo
Where on earth did they get this crap from?
Simpricess 1 year ago
"Mediocre care for everybody"?! My British Arse! I have never had a problem with the N.H.S. and neither has anyone in my family. I have had two family members with cancerous ailments, all dealt with on the N.H.S. quickly and efficiently.
matthemod 1 year ago 40
I am an American by the way so I am not saying that as a bias towards the UK.
VfangzV 1 year ago
Here's what CNN is trying to tell us: Even though Britons live longer, are all covered for free, and are spending less as a nation on health care, don't envy them because AMERICA ISN'T GOING TO GET YOU GUYS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ANYTIME SOON!! Ignorance is bliss, right???
VfangzV 1 year ago
How can america argue against universal healthcare? It makes no sense whatsoever! Surely even mediocre healthcare is better than none, not that I think the NHS is mediocre, it saved my mum's, dad's, brother's and my own life. Private hospitals wont just magicly dissapear if free state hospitals are introduced, there will always be people with anough money for so called 'better' care. The only reason why healthcare is argued against is that it would impact on the profits of the private hospitals.
MyNameIsEarl1066 1 year ago
"If you have private cover you have to opt out of the NHS". What rubbish- my NHS doctor referred me to a private hospital and monitored my treatment there, the only reason it was done privately was speed and convenience- the 'private' doctor worked at the local NHS hospital too! I can still get NHS treatment when I need it no issues.
flyingscotno1 1 year ago 2
Why did they cut out the bit of the clip at 1:59?
PastafariansWON 1 year ago
These drugs that are "often not included" are the ones that are very expensive and are yet to prove they make a substantial difference.
Why waste tax money on something that may not work?
This entire thing is bullshit, they don't know what they are talking about.
FACT: the NHS saved my mum, my sister, both of my grandma's.
FACT: with the US system all of the above would be dead because we couldn't afford the treatment for them.
Trustisaliability 1 year ago
@Trustisaliability those bullshit cutting edge treatments saved my mom and dads life from cancer.fuck off you ignorant brit.you think you are so much better than everyone else. fucking limey cunts.you are no better than anyone else.
cassidy99ful 1 year ago
@cassidy99ful
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh troll your embarrassing yourself.
Trustisaliability 1 year ago
Yes 60% of us think the NHS needs some more money.
That doesn't mean we want to get rid of it.
"Mediocre care for everybody", well sorry if you don't get the 5star treatment, but I'd rather have treatment at all rather than paying extortionate rates to get hotel like service. I want treatment not a holiday.
Trustisaliability 1 year ago
@Trustisaliability I get both at only 160 a month.my healthcare is very affordable as it is for most people.85 percent of americans are covered.millions don't want health insurance.
cassidy99ful 1 year ago
@cassidy99ful
160 a month is a hell of a lot of money, especially for someone on a low wage.
My Dental care is £35 a year.
Trustisaliability 1 year ago
UK life expectancy exceeds the US. The rest is bullshit.
jacksawild 1 year ago 4
LONG LIVE THE GREAT NHS AND GUESS WHAT IM A CONSERVATIVE
ProConservativeUK 1 year ago 4
LONG LIVE THE GREAT NHS AND GUESS WHAT IM A CONSERVATIVE
ProConservativeUK 1 year ago 5
the NHS IS GREAT FUCK THE YANK SYSTEM I KNOW I CAN SEE A DOCTOR GET TRETMENT AND NOT WORY ABOUT PAYING
kevinkards1 1 year ago 4
What a load of crap: "medicre" healthcare? And yet we have a longer life expectancy, lower infant and maternal mortality and most importantly UNIVERSAL coverage. There are some things in life that are a fundamental right and access to healthcare is one of them. It is a discrace the way the US has treated it's own citizens over the years.
Well done Obama for what you have acheived so far - keep pushing!
melonmatt 1 year ago
@melonmatt
Does that mean you're going to be extending this right to millions of africans? Doubtful, as you'd have sold everything you owned and lived a subsistence lifestyle so they could have this right too.
If not, you're either racist or don't really consider it a right at all.
Guncriminal 1 year ago
@melonmatt look at canada.if you want a family doctor you need to win a lottery.universal healthcare leads to rationing and mediocre service.my insurance is 160 a month.anyone who wants health insurance can afford it.millions of young americans don't want it.they say it is a waste of money.
cassidy99ful 1 year ago
Well speaking as a Brit that "report" was a crock of sh1t!
I wonder which American health insurance company paid for that.
Wake up America, surely you don't all fall for this rubbish do you?
God B. less!
Paul2uall 1 year ago
Detect a bit of jealousy there, huh CNN?
clazzyfree1 1 year ago 3
The fundamental change that is NHS needs is..... MORE MONEY, we want our tax money to go to to NHS, not to bombing some distant Country, or paying for some politician's 3rd home.
This report is biased on an unbelievable level, the stuff that doesn't get paid for is the untested stuff.
They don't want to give a cancer patient trial drugs which end up killing them. Which is understandable.
It is clear that this report is not in favour of Health care.
theunderone1 1 year ago 3
Lies lies lies, and more lies. And- 'the British system of muddling through'. Say WHAT!???
Seriously Americans. If you want to reform your OWN system, with a completely different system that ours, don't start trashing ours for no reason- with bad reporting. And what is this 'anyone taking on private health care has to opt out of the NHS'....?
What!!!!!!! B-ollocks.
I've HAD private health care here. You do NOT have to opt out of the NHS to get it.
Totally, totally, untrue.
MrDragon1968 1 year ago
Great reporting there, though errr 'Kitty Pilgrim'..... I'll flip it around. What kind of fuckin' dumb arse name is that....
MrDragon1968 1 year ago
Typically biased reporting. Wouldn't expect anything less.
thefltdriver 1 year ago
you do not need to opt out of the NHS to recieve Private Health Care- TOTALLY WRONG CNN!!! I am on NHS and private health care and there are no problems. CNN, sack your researchers!
TrackAttackerUK 1 year ago
We all live in castles, wear bowler hats, drive minis and talk like the queen.
These fucking idiots probably don't even have a passport
I truly hope the rest of the US population inst stupid enough to believe this crap.
Q3ToPBuZz 1 year ago
Complete load of bull. The NHS is far superiour to any American healthcare provision.
Dendiol 1 year ago 2
Most of this is bullshit.
Cupit29 1 year ago 2
PROPOGANDA
Livercool92 1 year ago 2
Peter could be so lucky to have our health care system. Cutting edge health care system in the USA? LOL please your insurance companies deny people coverage and let people die. Opt out of the NHS, lol then I guess they don't get emergency treatment since they don't pay for it. Private hospitals don't have emergency rooms.
Simpricess 1 year ago
The US really are completley brainwashed, how can a media company in a DEMOCRACY get away with this?
Jack0Young 1 year ago
Don't worry. Lou Dobbs is no longer on the air. Plus the bill passed. Lou was the only crazy right winger on CNN. As an American, I know that NHS may have problems, nothings perfect. But, it's a hell of a lot better then what we have here. My dad has a "Cadillac" health plan as they call it here, basically VERY GOOD insurance. Now that the bill passed I can go back on his plan payed for by his company until I'm 26 instead of having to pay $100s every month of my own money for a crappy plan.
hop208 1 year ago
"If you have private healthcare, you have to opt out of the NHS" WTF? How can a news programme get away with these outright lies?
AnimeAramis1 1 year ago 2
@AnimeAramis1 It's America, it doesn't matter. They can tell lies about anyone because if you disagree, they'll just invade you, fuck the shit out of your country's customs and beliefs and then build a military base on top of it.
thefltdriver 1 year ago
60% of the British the public probably do think the NHS needs improvement, even i do, but that doesn't mean it's bad or it doesn't work, just that like everything it could be better. Im sure a large percentage of people think that the US road network needs improvement, for example, but that doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with it. Finally i can confidentially say that 99.999999% of British, and citizens other Universal Healthcare countries, would have it over the US system, any day!
grungedistortion999 2 years ago
Propaganda, just to save the interest behind the corrupt U.S. health care system.
Universal Health care is the best choice.
ExhibitMan 2 years ago 4
most people who moan about uk health care are pakis and wankers from over shores who milk the system for free and want it all
2walsall 2 years ago
the servey and statistics that they used were very clever. but at the same time very very stupid.
its wrong to try and manipulate facts to support your opinion because then your lying to yourself and other people.
they said that people wanted to change the system in some way, not that it needed to be abolished.
thisreddot 2 years ago
GO WATCH FOX NEWS! ARE YOU SAYING THOSE STATISTICS ARE LIES? LOLOLOOLOOLO9LOO9LOL YOU CANT TAKE THE TRUTH CAN YOU?......................USA HEALTHCARE. Epic Fail.
toweronepower 2 years ago 2
yes... USA healthcare is an epic fail
thisreddot 2 years ago 3
it is true that many people wish reform to uk healthcare however the majority opinion does not wish to see a change to universal access publicly funded by taxation. it is an absolute institution in the uk and detrimental change to its principles will see any government being discarded by the electorate. also private care does not require opting out change from the nhs, it is complementary, a recent change and the correct one in my view.
afterism20 2 years ago
load og crap, only the rich americans are slagging of the nhs, because they dont want to pay abit extra in taxs n wud rather the poor people would just die in the street and people go bankrupt. its shocking that the U.S is so far behind much of the world on heathcare. The NHS is not totally perfect but improvement are being made all the time
AnnieRoadAGGRO 2 years ago 3
You can get all sorts of responses to make all sorts of conclusions depending on what questions you ask.
Republica 2 years ago
whatever happened to leeches?
GOfilms01 2 years ago
The fact that 57% of Britons want reform is a moot point. That's not 57% that dislike the system; it's 57% that believe it can be better. If you survey Britons on whether they would rather have private healthcare over public, the responses would be very heavily in favour of public. And that's true in any other country with a well-functioning public system.
Also, the idea that British healthcare is "mediocre" is just one pundit's opinion.
nojyt 2 years ago 22
@nojyt universal healthcare leads to rationing.which means mediocre health care.not opinion fact.sorry,you lose.
cassidy99ful 1 year ago
@cassidy99ful Where do you get these "facts"? LOL. The vast majority of people in all the Western countries with public healthcare DO NOT want to lose it. They DO NOT see private healthcare as a better alternative. That's the only undeniable "fact" in this debate. You are just too affected by the propaganda wars in your country to realize how the rest of the world feels.
nojyt 1 year ago
Did Stephen Hawkins get mediocre care? No. And neither do all other Brits. We get good health care. And at a terrifficly good price.
I don't know where CNN gets its facts but satisfaction with NHS is way high today. 90% satisfied and 10% not. Not as bad they say here. Also people use private and NHS care all the time so the comment the woman makes is ignorant bulls***. You cannot even get a private insurer to pay for a GP visit!!
hauskalainen 2 years ago 4
How dare they criticise our healthcare system, it's way better than their crap.
hi262779 2 years ago 4
cnn= pile of shit what they said is wrong 89% of people of the UK love the NHS there are problems as people know but we are sorting them out at least in britian we dont go bankrupt through health care and the fact that the UK is ranked 18th over america contridicts this video and also that the average male in the UK lives 2 years long than americans also contridicts the video
loudman12 2 years ago 28
SUCH LIES, they want it changed not abolished
LONG LIVE THE NHS
TheRedflagflyer 2 years ago 4
This comment has received too many negative votes show
The NHS is now a joke.too many people wanting pieces of a small cake.May well have worked in the sixties,but not Im afraid in this day and age. !!!
soundnicetome 2 years ago
what? no, wrong. Their was a period during the 80s it went downhill but that was due to Margaret Thatcher's policies on the NHS what the conservatives admit was a horrible mistake and never be repeated.
The NHS is a much much better health care system then the stupid american MHOs. The quality of health care in alot of countries has been questioned time and time again and each time the american HMOs are easily crushed by the NHS in everything but some preventative measures. quality? NHS wins
DoomsdayR3sistance 2 years ago 4
RUBBISH AHHHHH SUCH LIES!!!! NHS IS FANTASTIC! 95% of people think its fatastic. EVERYTING IS PAID FOR EVERYTHING ALL THINGS ARE INCLUDED ALL THINGS ARE REINBURSED.
krazykeys88 2 years ago 2
all I heard was propoganda! Americans getting and wanting to remain rich off the suffering of others!
JLees2000uk 2 years ago 4
According to the World Health Organization US health care is ranked 37th worldwide while Great Britain ranks 18th. It's interesting that cancer treatment is mentioned because that is the single aspect of US health care which is better than Britain or Europe. As far as I'm aware the US is the only industrialized nation which refuses medical care to its citizens.
catalyst8 2 years ago 2
they don't tell you that 95% of brits would never want to get rid of it, yes it needs improvements but we would never want to get rid of it.
Chriseycarlyeah324 2 years ago 2