We Love Our NHS

[kingandy]

Yeah that private healthcare option scam they have going in the States sounds like a great idea.

Government-funded healthcare? Won't somebody think of the poor insurance companies?

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[samharber.livejournal.com]

I want government to have NOTHING to do with medicine. NOTHING. Government has proven itself to be a fuckup in everything.
So who is going to check that medicines actually work?
Are you happy for a return of snake oil salesmen and psychic healing? It's the free market way after all. These people have the right to sell you their medicine, and if someone dares to say it doesn't work, they'll sue you. In London!
Or if you do have a respectable doctor who can treat you in a scientific manner, what happens then?
"Hi. I've got this tumour in my bowel. It's a fairly simple operation to remove it."
"Oh dear. That's potentially life threatening. It will cost $50,000 dollars"
"But that's ridiculous - it's a simple operation. You can do it in an hour!"
"Actually it's $50,100 now. The longer it takes the more lethal it is. The more lethal it is, the more desperate you are to have it cured. The more desperate you are, the more you'll pay to have it cured."
"But that's ridiculous!"
"$50,200 now. I hate to have to do this to you, but my hands are tied by the free market."