One of the ongoing tragedies in the UK is that the Conservative government has been hell bent on destroying the NHS through privatization creep and chronically underfunding it. I've experienced both health care systems, and it's maddening that the government wants to adopt a US style, market friendly approach to health care (likely by entrenching a two tier system by watching the NHS implode to the point where people lose faith in it and migrate to private insurance). Most British people simply don't understand how US health care works, even under the ACA. British friends of mine were under the impression that if you had health insurance in the US, everything would be free or at least, affordable. They were shocked to hear the truth. It's insane that in the UK we have a cabinet minister for health, Jeremy Hunt, who has co-authored books calling for the NHS to be replaced by a US style insurance system. Depressing. . .
One of the ongoing tragedies in the UK is that the Conservative government has been hell bent on destroying the NHS through privatization creep and chronically underfunding it. I've experienced both health care systems, and it's maddening that the government wants to adopt a US style, market friendly approach to health care (likely by entrenching a two tier system by watching the NHS implode to the point where people lose faith in it and migrate to private insurance). Most British people simply don't understand how US health care works, even under the ACA. British friends of mine were under the impression that if you had health insurance in the US, everything would be free or at least, affordable. They were shocked to hear the truth. It's insane that in the UK we have a cabinet minister for health, Jeremy Hunt, who has co-authored books calling for the NHS to be replaced by a US style insurance system. Depressing. . .