[ii] It is worth noting for accuracy that there is a skeleton of a single private option remaining in Britain, known as BUPA, that offers significantly better care. However, access to it is a complicated issue, and not one I have time to go into in such a short article. In brief, when one considers that the average taxpayer is forced to pay for their NHS care and the NHS care of many others, it is tough to then find the money to pay for BUPA health care costs on top of that, although a surprising number of Britons do so anyway.
It's hard to know where to begin...you do realize that the health delivery system is not private in Britain as is its insurance component? Comparing Britain's system to ours, as the article implies, is apples and bananas.
For every horror story there is an equivalent one just about anywhere. And even with that, the article fails to mention that their system ranks higher than ours, spends 40% of ours, has lower infant mortality, higher life expectancy, lower rate of hospital mistakes.
Al |
