Britain's Dan Hannan: Nationalized healthcare has made us iller.

An impassioned plea from famed UK MEP Dan Hannan on what a burden the UK's National Health Service has become. What we need is a unique American solution to the healthcare problem. iusbvision.wordpress.com

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[robinhood2be]

Fox is the Russian Pravda of the Republican party.

[TalkerOne]

@robinhood2be sticks & stones...you dont have what it takes to post any meaningful refutation....

[reddingpa]

...shares his views about the health system. Improvements and reforms are always topics politically, but no politician in touch with the British public would oppose the NHS as Hannan does. Sadly for Mr Hannity, the chance of Mr Hannan becoming Prime Minister is zero. To hear a more typical opinion of the NHS, perhaps Sean Hannity should ask a doctor who works there every day, or an average British citizen.

[reddingpa]

...the UK's care quality 12 places above that of the US. Canada was 5th, Japan 1st, France 3rd. All of these countries have a publicly funded system, or one in which insurance is mandated and subsidized for the poor. I have an uncommon medical condition for which I'm receiving a portion of my treatment privately, since understandably the NHS is less specialized in the area. However, I still get subsidized NHS prescription drugs (£7 for a month, free if you're elderly or a child)...

[bakersteven3]

Hannan is such a liar, "we have no doctors"...erm, we have slightly more doctors per patient than the USA does !! But he is politican who wishes to live in THE USA. Please go, you arenot British, you wher eborn in facist Peru, where your family mad emoney from slavery and you live in Spain and work in Brussels. You have never lived in the UK or used the NHS. You sir are a Lord Haw haw.

[TheAsymmetrical]

@quirose Immigrants.

[irishgodfatherchris]

@quirose its about as high as other nations but the thing is the UK NHS is paid for by taxes so for as long as you pay taxes you contribute to the system, it works the same in my country (Australia) although there are exemptions.

[daedatube]

TELEPROMPTER! Never looks away. Take acting lessons.

[quirose]

That health care system is not sustainable. What's the average number of children British are having? Will there be enough children who will grow up to pay for the aging population?

[davkem]

I feel bad for the US. Mr Hannan is just so full of nonsense. As an average Brit I would never trade our healthcare for the US system and you just know that this cretin will get get far more media coverage than the people like Prescott that actual talk fact on the subject.

[justgetsome]

What a champion of freedom!

[122436Joe]

@robinhood2be -Fox is Russian Pravda of Repub party-

I dont understand your comparison. I'm guessing you really don’t either.

Fox isnt run by the gov, its privately owned. It doesnt run only gov-approved content. It is often very critical of gov.

BTW: Fox often has MORE viewers than ALL the other major cable news channels combined. And that kinda makes sense- Americans self-ID as "conservative" more than twice as much as "liberal" (42% to 19%). BTW, 36% self-ID as "independents".

[BonnieBlueFlag1314]

This is absolute nonsense, the English NHS is horrendous, the Scottish NHS, although not perfect, does offer decent health care.

[davijeph]

@Rensune By the way you have not told me who the 85,000 UK citizens are that do not have UHC? It should also be pointed out that Hannan born and raised in Peru by far right multimillionaire parents given the best private education that money can buy. Is a person who has never had any practical experience of the NHS owning too the fact he lives in Spain.