The NHS is insanely wasteful. Just two years ago the "consultation scandal" broke and the nation found out about doctors making deals with hospitals to work overtime as "consultants" for exorbitant fees. A "consultant" makes £89,000 a month on top of their basic salary as a doctor, that's $114,000 in freedom money. They make anywhere between £300 and £1000 per four-hour shift - the higher estimate is a little bit below what a minimum wage employee can make in a month. In four hours. On top of their normal salary. The highest-paid consultant was paid a total of £375,000 in 2015, or $438,000. For part-time consultations on the side every now and then. It's asinine.
I think that a lot of people who talk about healthcare never had any insight.
Healthcare in the usa is crazy expensive without a real reason, except because is a ratchet between hospital (that are "for profit") and insurance.
there are HUNDREDS of reason to have a socialized healthcare, we could spend hours without reaching the bottom of it.
Also, just few words about car insurance: if you are broken and you hit someone, who is going to pay the victim? No one.
That's why car/truck/scooter insurance MUST be mandatory.
this is the point, just because you make something "socialised" doesn't make it any less prone to plundering, if anything it makes the problem worse because now your another level disconnected from the costs, the more levels between the consumer and the provider the easier it is to overcharge and inflate prices because you never see the breakdown of "£210 for a print out" if people were put face to face with the charges these practices would soon be severely limited, because once i know what im truly paying i will be a lot more critical of the prices, its why often people just pay for their own car repairs even though they have insurance, because they know that in the long run the increased insurance rates will far surpass the £200 for a new bumper to be fitted, spreading out the cost nearly always results in over charging
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