Why are people so keen on gov't run healthcare again?

Originally Posted by Bernard Black

There's the rub. GP's appointments are easy to get if you have a general complaint. However, if you require specialist attention it can take a very long time to get the appointment you need. I myself had to wait nearly a year to address heart problems. I'm not familiar with American healthcare proceedures, but I'm guessing if I had the right insurance over there I could have resolved my issues much sooner.

Well that's the thing, if you paid a BUPA subscription or whatever, you'd get seen for any ailment within weeks. If you choose to pay for healthcare in Britain, you get much better service. On the flip side, should you choose not to pay you wait a bit longer but, they'll try really hard not to let you die and nobody is ever refused healthcare because they can't afford it.

Our health service is incredible and I'll hear nothing said against it.

If your medicare thing is running low on cash, why not divert some funds from your monstrous defence budget? Sure the lack of funding there might lead to a few more deaths of military personel but you'd make up for that by saving more poor, sick people and military people volunteer to get shot at, poor people don't volunteer to catch life-threatening illnesses.

Jam it back in, in the dark.