Bingowings said:
thejediknighthusezni said:
Bingowings said:
Say it loud! You are a doodoo-poopyface and you are proud but seriously though despite your worries about becoming Stalinists socialised medicine is one of the best ideas since the invention of edible words.
Without buying drugs, diagnostic equipment, and supplies developed for the American health care market for pennies on the dollar and without the political imperative to compete with the best practices in America, Britain would very soon have Stalinist health care.
Two of the big five drug companies are British owned and run from Britain.
The other three are northern European and produce their wares here.
Most of the medical equipment in the world is made in China or India not the USA.
UK training hospitals export more Doctors back to the third world than we keep. Arguably the whole world benefits from it and it's not even the best example of a socialised health care system. The French have a much better system than we do.
Point still stands. I was talking about items developed for the American market, not where the corporate suits might be located. China and India copy like crazy. You lose your best doctors because you refuse to pay them appropriately. The biggest reason for anti-Americanism is the Euro political establishments are furious about having to compete with the US best practices.
If you examine the major medical procedures in the US where the government stays out of it (Lasik, plastic surgeries...), quality has shot upwards over time while prices have fallen through the floor. Where the government keeps ladling on the regulations and mandates, prices have shot out of the solar system while quality stagnates or goes down. The politicians who create the problems then get to step in with "solutions".
America has a politician problem, not a health care problem.