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Re: The NHS is rediculous
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Originally Posted by bullseyebarb
As I said earlier.....the consumer is out of the mix. This skews everything. The government began the price fixing mess, with no regard for how much it cost a hospital or doctor to deliver a particular service. This then slopped over into the private insurance sector because hospitals and doctors were charging them a little more to make up for the losses. People who pay out of pocket often pay more because of this downward spiral. This tends to happen when you have a third party payer. In the case of your NHS, it manifests itself in shortages of equipment, specialists, etc., and waiting lists for patients.
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If you are poor in the States, you'd be waiting forever for the drugs that I'm on for Parkinson's Disease. 
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