Monday, March 29, 2010

National Healthcare in Great Britain

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...

1 comment:

  1. 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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