How Britain Put One of the Best Health Care Systems on Life Support

nytimes.com

13 pointsmikhael5 comments

Not Britain. The Conservative (right wing) political party.

They're both bad in different ways. The right only understands one thing: spend less. The left only understands one thing: spend more.

A country is a system too complex to make decisions top-bottom like this.

Indeed. The real sadness is that people get hurt in the political crossfire.

What an incredibly vapid and reductionist take. You don't like politics, ergo it is simple enough to discount.

Getting an appointment with the NHS to pull a wisdom tooth, right now, takes between 6 and 9 months.

I had never used the term "socialized healthcare" unironically before, but now it's starting to sound like there's some truth to it.