I’m sitting with my GF waiting for her to have an operation, and this is one those times I am so thankful for the NHS in the UK

I was just thinking the same. As Americans, we are really brainwashed into thinking that universal healthcare will somehow be worse, despite all the evidence contrary to that. Our system is pure trash.

As an example, I'm a healthy, young individual who is considered to have "good" health insurance compared to a lot of my friends. Here's some things I still deal with:

  • $50 copay any time I want to see any doctor

  • Waiting months to see certain specialists, or...

  • Spending hours on the phone trying to reach a specialist that actually takes my insurance and is also accepting new patients, and then...

  • Giving up because the closest specialist that meets both of those qualifications is 30 miles away.

If that's what I'm dealing with, what about the people with no insurance? With no money? Unemployed? The people who don't have hours to spend on the phone to find a doctor because they have two jobs and a family? Folks who don't have transportation?

It's true insanity, and I don't see how any person with any conscience thinks this is a sustainable system.

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