The Nhs Is Broken And Not Working, As Donald Correctly Said.

[dave50]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42943768
So Donald was correct in is analogy.

[Spicerack]

Hence, the question mark.
You were in another country(sans insurance) you get ill in the middle of the night. You instantly see a doctor and get cured despite that epic trek down the road for an all night chemist.
Seems to me you had excellent service and their system worked fine.

[237SJ]

My point was that I had to pay a lot of money for it

[237SJ]

To clarify - I had to pay a lot of money for the same service that I would have got from the NHS

[Spicerack]

Health care is expensive. That's why people pay for insurance unless they're visiting this country.

[Baldric]

Mikey said
///He should try fixing America's broken and dysfunctional health arrangements....that is what he is paid for, after all///

I provided a Link that says he donates his Salary to good causes, not defending him at all, just correcting misinformation.

[Theland]

Free at the point of use. But should be VERY EXPENSIVE AT THE POINT OF ABUSE. Drunks and druggies for example.

[RobNorth]

The complaints about the NHS are given plenty of oxygen and breed at the speed of bacteria, while the successful 99.999 treatments go unremarked...except by normal folks. Everyone I know has nothing but praise for the NHS and rightly so.
Due to it's enormous size it's an easy target for those who would bring attention to themselves, ie politicians.
The size is mind boggling: take all three armed services, the MOD that runs them, all the Police and prison services, the four other main cultural icons, Tesco,Sainsbury,Asda,Waitrose....and you're still half a million employees behind the NHS. We use just the hospital A&E departments 90 million times a year!
Because of its size and spread it accepted by those who know as being easily the best when something serious needs attention quickly - other countries have nothing like the density of expertise.

[naomi24]

237SJ //My point was that I had to pay a lot of money for it //

Good. Travel uninsured, you take your chances. Why should anyone else foot your bill? Perhaps if the NHS followed similar procedures it might be rather more buoyant than it is.

Mikey, //The support that that Trump gets here on AN never ceases to amaze me......here he is, together with Farage, running down our NHS, and instead of some people manning barricades and defending us, they side with Trump......TTT is fond of talking about traitors and yet here is a cast iron example of such.//

No one is running the NHS down – and no one is a traitor so stop insulting people. The simple fact is there is no doubt that NHS resources are not boundless so stop being so utterly disingenuous. When your hatred for Trump (whose administration has no effect on you whatsoever) takes precedence over your usual political spin, which it very clearly does, even you should recognise that your problem doesn’t lie with Trump – it lies with you.

[cassa333]

Zac @ 21.35

It's not rubbish.

Properly run it doesn't need more money.

Well it does if you want to give everything to everyone. But no nation, even ours, can afford that.

So what do you do? Chuck more money at it even though it won't actually make a difference or reform it to make it work ?

[Zacs-Master]

Of course it needs more money. Nursing recruitment and Doctor recruitment is at an all time low. Do away with stupid degrees for nurses and we’ll see an upturn in people,taking up the profession. Grass roots stuff.

[Zacs-Master]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/13/royal-college-nursing-nhs-recruitment-crisis

[woofgang]

That makes me laugh. Do you know who spearheaded and achieved the "degrees for all nurses" thing? The RCN. They brought in an American called Beverley Malone to be General Sec of the RCN and tasked her with raising the profile and status of nursing. She is a clever woman and worked at the highest level in government to achieve this. In doing it she closed out promotion and development opportunities for other professions and made the nursing profession top heavy and expensive. I was there working in the NHS and saw it happen. Well done RCN.