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Originally Posted by Harmon
Every public health care system is a tyranny. Yours in England. The one in Canada. Medicare and Medicaid in the US.
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Please go and look up what "tyranny" is. If it includes "lots of professionals working their asses off and trying to care about people while never getting enough backing from the govt" you may have a point.
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Originally Posted by Harmon
In all such systems, your control of your medical care is subordinate to the mandates of a governmental third party, rather than to the decisions of you and your doctor, on the basis that the government is paying for the care and gets to call the shots (so to speak.)
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Given I have very direct experience of both the US and the UK systems that is almost completely incorrect. If you are very rich then you could, in theory, pay for your own treatment completely. At some point the vast majority will need some type of Govt intervention....