For those who think national healthcare is working wonderfully in Great Britain, an interesting series of tweets
from Tim Harford:
How many times is it reasonable to expect the phone to ring before the NHS answers? 50 times? I gave up after 100...
...Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. NHS site says it's one of the very best. May be true - so I hope my experience isn't representative!...
Am currently working on a piece about how NHS waiting lists are measured. Alas I have become part of my own article - never good...
Of all the people I know, no one is more concerned about healthcare reform in the US than my British wife. Having grown up with the NHS and having gotten used to American healthcare over the past 7 years, she's all-too-aware of what the US stands to lose. I suspect most Britons that champion the NHS have simply never had experience with another system.
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