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Originally Posted by stovt001
No, having just gotten back from living in England, I can tell you that if I really needed medical attention, the one place I'd want to be is the U.S. While in Oxford, my friend came down with a cough so bad that if she was in the U.S. it would have landed her right in the hospital under the care of a specialist. Unfortunately since we were in England, she had to go through the NHS. Before any medical work can be done, you have to go to a general practitioner. So she scheduled an appointment, and when she got there, the doctor didn't examine her or recommend anything. She just disinterestedly asked what kind of medicine she wanted prescribed and then kicked her right out in under 5 minutes. Health care just doesn't exist there. It won't exist here either if a certain leftward leaning political party gets their way. Oh, also while we were out there two remarkable news items came out. One was a study that showed that Brits were increasingly pulling their own teeth because dentists are in very short supply under the NHS. The other was about a man dying of cancer who was denied meds by the NHS because of where he lived. Under the way the NHS operates, the cancer meds were approved for people living under certain postal codes but not others. So because of where he lived, he was denied the appropriate treatment. How is that decent healthcare. We should pull out of Iraq and bomb the Brits for atrocities just like that. God save us from liberalism.
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This has been a big topic on the democrat side. It's one of those issues I haven't really researched. I didn't know that's how it worked in England. Hmm food for thought.