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Originally Posted by Eric
Talking of pen pushers and general admin. staff, it is still a fact that the health system in the US is more wasteful than either the NHS or the various Provincially run systems in Canada. And it provides a level of health care slightly worse than that in Costa Rica, and a helluva lot worse than the NHS. This is a point well worth noting when considering changes to the NHS; or, at least, when considering which way the NHS should be improved.
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It concerns me that whenever anybody talks about reform of the NHS we get people comparing it with the US system. There are very few people that when they say reform, mean that we should scrap state healthcare and just have private provision and private insurance like the US system.