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Originally Posted by Chick Webb
"Good" is relative. Is it? Maybe, but it could certainly be improved. I've seen first-hand, though, what government-run single payer systems do to people. It's not pretty. (Don't get me started on how the UK's NHS killed my father in law.) Ultimately, all of those systems devolve into bloated, inefficient, soulless bureaurcracies that ration health care for the people that the "serve". It's telling, I think, that in all of the countries that people point to as having wonderful government-run healthcare systems, everyone with means has supplemental private insurance that actually allows them to get care when they want it, and not when some bureaucrat says they can have it.
The bottom line is that, if you have insurance (even Medicare) and are savvy enough to manage your way through it, the US healthcare system is by far the best in the world.
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Well said.
Sorry to read about your FIL. As I have mentioned I've come upon too many horror stories in the UK papers about NHS failings. And this includes death due to lack of timely care or improper care, bad diagnosis, botched medical procedures, etc.