NHS

With the USA considering whether or not to adopt a NHS style healthcare system, Kwai Chi highlights the pros and cons of the nhs and suggests improvements and alternatives drawing from personal experiences having lived in other countries.

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[admiralt]

[sarcasm] What? Throw money into the NHS? Are you mad sir? [/sarcasm]

I think it basically boils down to one question about health. Is it a right or is it a business? If its a right, one has a to has a NHS. If its a business, well, then its private. Most people here in America are coming around to the idea that it is a right, they just don't want to pay for it.

I can tell you one thing. Here in Texas where I live, there is the problem of illegal immigrants, which puts strain on the hospitals

[kwaichi]

Thanks for your thoughts on the issue :)

[vicious12394]

the third group you should have called self harmers, Alcohol abuse, tobacco abuse and narcotic abuse.

[kwaichi]

that's fair

[juxtn]

when you discussed waiting times, are they really "too long?" as opposed to an appropriate or "may seem long, but there is no need to rush" and why i say this is because as a US citizen we pay a huge mark up of health care because the idea is to make money in addition to treatment. So yeah maybe we get a certain treatment or test done faster... but was it really time sensitive to begin with or is it harmless to wait if it means you will get what you need in the end and keeping costs down.

[kwaichi]

time is known to save many issues from progressing especially when it comes to cancer. when people are forced to wait 6 months to get seen their cancer may have spread to a terminal stage.

[electrifrying]

Running super marathons is self abuse lol.

But I would've thought marathon runners would be naturally thin. Your HUGE - muscle wise.

[Films4You]

Running Marathons is self abuse YOU should NOT get Free treatment.

[Films4You]

For the Tories NHS=No Health service.. Unless you have a ton of cash.

[rumco]

Good point about drunks. I say, let them out on the street and collect corpses. By treating them for free, NHS is only subsidizing and encouraging it. I live in UK, I know the binge drinking culture.

[rumco]

@admiralt It's not a right as that would mean that one can enslave others to provide it to him.

[B190489]

@Thetruthishere11

The US has one the unhygenic hospitals in the world, USA300 is a MRSA killer virus, that spreads because of dirty hospitals and poor people who can't pay their bill. MRSA in Denmark??? We have no MRSA in Denmark, our hospitals are clean.

In the US, hospitals are cutting money for emergency rooms, because poor people has no insurance so they don't count them to check which ressources they need and people dies because the emergency room is overcrowded.

[B190489]

@Thetruthishere11 Some facts: Costs USA: 16.0% of GDP Germany: 10.4% of GDP Life expectancy USA: 78.1 Germany: 79.8 Infant mortality rate USA: 6.7 Germany: 3.8 Physicians per 1000 people USA: 2.4 Germany: 3.5

[B190489]

@Thetruthishere11

Fact is: the danish gov is socialistic, the country has the best Gini coefficient value. The tax rate is very high, the streets are clean, the infrastructure very modern, no bridges collapses you know;))))) Denmark has also the highest welfare payments. Poverty? Where? Not in Denmark and in the rest of Europe, it is also very unknown.