@wacka Does he know about BUPA?

he seemed to think we only have the public option... and NHS was mandatory

He isn't wrong Wacka, all the private organisations just bill the NHS for your treatment.
If they cut off your funding at an NHS level you wouldn't get anything private either

Paying for the NHS *is* mandatory, it's National insurance

they can only charge the NHS if its an NHS patient

Which everyone with a right to work in the UK is

and I dont mean the taxes are mandatory, I mean the choice of hospital organisation

It's geo locked

I mean by that logic the US has a mandatory healthcare option... 😛

You only get a choice if multiple catchment areas

Same as schools

Yes and no

and they pay a lot more for healthcare taxes than we do, per capita

It only covers OAPs really though

Yeah that's like saying muh wage gap though.
Technically correct. Factor in all data it's bollox

We pay the same, Americans pay based on their health level.

Also buying through a corporation jack's up the average cost

(through employer I mean)

As we all know, if the government makes a guarantee on something there is no incentive to lower prices/be competitive - see the broadband roll out in the UK for a prime example.

This is also why college is so expensive now in America - fed guarantees a lot of funding and loans are also guaranteed under certain diversity quotas

If you HAVE to pay me why would I cut costs

Aka the TV licence

per capita the US pays $8500 (probably more now) and we pay USD $3500 (probably more now) 2009 figures so adjust for inflation...

they pay more than double... and most people dont even have access to it

Cool more unvaried analysis of a multivaried priblem

Woman also make 77 cents on the dollar if I use that formula

Im only talking about their public healthcare

and our public healthcare

Which is a flawed analysis.
Apples and oranges my dude

they pay $3trn in taxes a year which goes to healthcare that most of them dont have access to

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Totally separate note Wacka - we don't do contact work, only full time sorry mate

I think low income earners, OAPs and veterans get access

.

Yeah it's a broken system - everyone agreea

Nah, vets get a special hybrid

OAPs get an NHS like service.
Ultra poor have different options

The reason they complain about oap care is because it's like the NHS.

I.e. they choose who to treat who dies ect

I assume they could get private if they wanted

Waiting times before and after retirement are months apart literally

Yeah most OAPs have private in the usa

Sorry, most sensible oaps