A raging debate in the US at the moment is the Health Care Reform that Obama is trying to get through. The idea behind it is simple, the Goverment would offer a fairly priced insurance scheme along side all this private health insurance schemes, and help people into it who couldnt or dont want to go private. People with low incomes, the old and young would be helped into the scheme either for free or low cost. This has made a massive split between people in the US or those who support the current system claiming its the best in the world, and those who would rather America go down the line that Britain did with the NHS. People against the Reform has been launching adverts attacking the idea and showing the British NHS and going on about how its failed, how it puts a value on someones life as weather medical treatment is worth the cost and about how people die on waiting lists. The British Embassy in the US has been trying to quietly correct the misinformation, without getting involved in the debate over there. One advert went as far as to say Stephen Hawking would be dead if he was British with the NHS. The funny fact? He is British and the NHS has kept him alive. He came out as saying the NHS was brilliant and has done everything for him. Funny enough the advert got pulled without being corrected. While yes the NHS has waiting lists, they have dropped massively in the past ten years with a Labour goverment and you can be seen very quickly, and drugs are available as needed. A few drugs arent always available which the US anti-reform have caught onto because they arent worth it. But there is a point behind it, why should tax payers spend £20 million to keep someone alive 2 months in a poor state of life, Quality of life does matter and sometimes the benefits outweight the cost, in which case the person could go private and use insurance, just like the US system. So while the anti-reform people are busy attacking the NHS and sending out lies and twisted adverts, Americans just wont see the benefits to having a NHS clone. They could learn a lot from the NHS, and the World Health Organization has put our health care above the US, so the NHS cant be that bad? Also remember in the UK, nothing is stopping you for going the US style and getting private health care cover and getting it done privately, totally avoiding the NHS. So for our American members, what do you think of health care reform? Do you want to see everyone having medical cover? Or do you want to see the goverment go one step further and make a goverment funded health care system which looks after everyone or do you want to keep the current system? And for other members, do you think the NHS is failing under its own weight (It is the biggest company, biggest employer and highest spending company in the United Kingdom)? Or is having an equal system for all, guranteeing health care for every single person a brilliant idea?
i really don get why tax payers pay to save someones lives... not that its a bad idea but seriously we are starving for these people whom we don even kno who they're. if its to extend theyre lives then no but to save it then a possible yes if they have served the community.