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• Olympic Opening Ceremony Celebrates Socialized Medicine

  July 28, 2012 at 6:30pm

  In reply to Modern_Cicero.

  You only get ER by law in the US? Wow! In the UK we get ALL healthcare: primary care, ER and electives for free, with equal access to everyone BY LAW.

• Olympic Opening Ceremony Celebrates Socialized Medicine

  July 28, 2012 at 6:27pm

  In reply to Baddoggy.

  ROFL! you are 60 years out of date. Deluded and ignorant.

• Olympic Opening Ceremony Celebrates Socialized Medicine

  July 28, 2012 at 6:23pm

  In reply to saranda.

  @Dejavu “If the Brits love dying while waiting for a pap smear, too bad for them.”

  It does not happen. Every woman can request a pap smear for free and will get an appointment within a few days. Every woman over 25 will get a letter from her primary care doctor asking her to have a free pap smear. Rates of cervical cancer is lower in the UK than in the US.

• Olympic Opening Ceremony Celebrates Socialized Medicine

  July 28, 2012 at 6:19pm

  In reply to MAX0O1.

  MAX0O1 : WOW celebrate organized death panels!!!!!!!!

  What death panels? You mean your US insurance company clerks with no medical experience rejecting treatment based on insurance company rules? Those death panels?

  The NHS has no death panels. BY LAW everyone has a right to treatment. BY LAW everyone has the same access rights. That is, as a patient, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion or disability, you have the same right to access as anyone else.

• Olympic Opening Ceremony Celebrates Socialized Medicine

  July 28, 2012 at 6:14pm

  In reply to HUGGINGMYBABIES.

  @pudssweetie

  Nonsense figures. Most men with prostate cancer die of something else – old age mostly, they are elderly. Unnecessarily treationg prostate cancer leads to far worse conditions. The NHS, since it is not driven by personal greed of doctors, will only operate when it is in the interest of the patient, not the interest of the doctors wallet.

  Similarly with breast cancer – totally made up figures.

  Here’s a clue to you @CatB: yes the UK visitors to the US *are* there for the weather. Have you ever spent any time in the UK? That yellow ball in the sky doesn’t visit us very often, so we like to travel to where it shows more often.

  Figures of healthcare tourism show the opposite of what you say: 6 million US citizens travel abroad for healthcare every year. They do so because your healthcare is so expensive and the quality is just as good or better in India or Malaysia.

• Olympic Opening Ceremony Celebrates Socialized Medicine

  July 28, 2012 at 6:03pm

  “centralized, single-payer health service, free at the point of consumption, was an ideal prescription for waste, rationing by queues, and inordinate public expenditure.”

  Hahaha deluded. How come we have longer life expectancy than the US yet the NHS costs a THIRD you pay in the US? The reason is that the US healthcare system is the most wasteful in the world, and it excludes a large proportion of your citizens. The NHS – by law – excludes NO ONE.

  “As a result of the long waits to receive care, patients have instead begun to purchase treatment themselves, even going abroad to receive care.”

  BY LAW NHS patients have to be treated within 18 weeks. What’s the US waiting time? (Clue: unless you have a huge pot of gold, the US wait times are longer than that, and there is no law to restrict it.)

  “Access and quality of care are low”

  WTF? As I said above BY LAW everyone has free access. NHS patients have the best access of any healthcare system.

  “[the wealthy] are more able to obtain a higher quality of care than others.”

  Not true. BY LAW they have the same level of access as poor people (getting a clue now?)