OT: More Sunday Joy...

tty good, as long as you have the insurance to pay for it, but it costs hal f as much again more than the most extravagant competition. All the competi tion offers universal health care, so their performance for the population as whole is decidedly better. No US right-winger can get their head around this.

The last mile is the most expensive, that's true with almost anything. The NHS is cheaper, but its performance varies from great to risible.

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LOL! :-) Mikek

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amdx

retty good, as long as you have the insurance to pay for it, but it costs h alf as much again more than the most extravagant competition. All the compe tition offers universal health care, so their performance for the populatio n as whole is decidedly better. No US right-winger can get their head aroun d this.

e NHS is cheaper, but its performance varies from great to risible.

The UK National Health Service delivers pretty good performance. If you've got a problem that needs an urgent solution they will solve it in short ord er. If they can put off solving your problem for months they have been know n to do it.

The telephone equations show that if you have four more circuits than you n eed, you can hook up your customers immediately 99% of the time.

Having four more specialists than you really need gets expensive for little used specialties - even more so if you aren't enthusiastic about shipping patients half-way across the country, and the NHS doesn't like paying for u nused capacity.

The situation got quite bad under Thatcher, who seems to have been trying t o encourage everybody to get US-style private health insurance (mostly from BUPA). It took Labour under Blair some years to undo the systmatic under-i nvestment.

What's your example of the NHS delivering "risible" performance?

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