Originally Posted by
Mercyful Fate
You are not talking to the right people then...Had a buddy who needed work done on his knee in the UK, and listening to the crap he went through? Yea, they can keep that crap overseas.
I am sure there are better practices than the UK NHS. But it should make you pause to know that the US spends 70% more on healthcare (as a percentage on GDP) than any other civilized Western nation (
Health expenditure, total (% of GDP) | Data)
Yet the outcomes are worse along pretty much any dimension - here a comparison of US (
http://www.who.int/gho/countries/usa.pdf) vs. CA (
http://www.who.int/gho/countries/can.pdf?ua=1).