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I’m not sure about that any more either. Read about the NHS in the UK - sounds like it is a dumpster fire and people are dying.

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The dumpster fire is happening because the conservative government there is running it into the ground by cutting funding at every turn possible and closing down hospitals.

And even then, I've experienced NHS care and it's 1000% better than the experience I've had with american care. It's not perfect by any means, but it's insane how much better it is than what we have here.

They aren't necessarily cutting funding. They are cutting the amount of funding for nationalized services while increasing the amount of funding for outsourcing contracts.

I've heard this narrative over and over again yet every time I look at it the NHS budget has been consistently increasing year over year for a long time.

And proportionally even more of that budget goes to the pockets of politicians' donors who own the companies that displace the nationalized NHS. Again, the argument is for nationalization, which is the opposite of the direction the NHS has been heading in.

Real term cuts & ageing populace

Before Brexit, NHS had better outcomes at 1/2 the cost of the US system.

Calling it a dumpster fire when the US system exists is laughable at best.

It is. NHS is more of a de facto state religion than it is a decent healthcare system.

That's a pretty good description of the American system as well.

My argument is for nationalized healthcare. The NHS is increasingly not nationalized, so you're only proving my point if anything. Outsourcing the NHS has ruined it.

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