Health Care in the UK

[JayTee]

Article from the Telegraph

Any Brits here want to chime in? I've read about a two tier system where the rich receive better care. Can anyone elaborate?

[DblBarrelJ]

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More than 70,000 Britons will have treatment abroad this year – a figure that is forecast to rise to almost 200,000 by the end of the decade. Patients needing major heart surgery, hip operations and cataracts are using the internet to book operations to be carried out thousands of miles away.

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C'mon Brits! Someone must have something to say about your "Broken, crumpling" health system!

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Record numbers of Britons are flying abroad for medical treatment to escape NHS waiting lists and the rising threat of hospital superbugs.

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Surely someone must have a response.

[zasterguava]

We will never have a privatised health care system in replace of the NHS in the UK. Nevertheless, people are very agitated by some of the failures of the NHS and wish it to become more efficient as opposed to more privatised.

Don't know what the OP is asking (don't want to read an article from the Telegraph either) but, yes, the rich have the option of going private and recieving quicker and better care in some cases.

[zasterguava]

.... saying that UK Health care is far better than the American health care system which is (according to Chomsky);
"the most inefficient healthcare system in the world, double the per capita cost of other comparable countries, some of the worst health outcomes, mainly because it is privatized."

[adios]

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.... saying that UK Health care is far better than the American health care system which is (according to Chomsky);
"the most inefficient healthcare system in the world, double the per capita cost of other comparable countries, some of the worst health outcomes, mainly because it is a combination of government subsidized setting prices and privatized."

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FYP

No way is the U.S. even close to 100% privitized.

[tomdemaine]

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.... saying that UK Health care is far better than the American health care system which is (according to Chomsky);
"the most inefficient healthcare system in the world, double the per capita cost of other comparable countries, some of the worst health outcomes, mainly because it is a combination of government subsidized setting prices and privatized."

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FYP

No way is the U.S. even close to 100% privitized.

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Agree! Corporatism is the worst of both worlds.