I would like to ask a question about the Health Care in the United Kingdom.Is it as bad as we are told?

The UK health service is second to none. Lots of new modern facilities. Easy referrals from your GP. All free at the point of use regardless of status. That includes psychiatric, some cosmetic, accident and emergency and all surgical procedures and hospital stays. As with any popular services there can be a waiting list for the more popular services, but nothing that puts lives at risk. Staff are all highly trained and very professional.

There are some problems with the NHS and when it does go wrong it goes wrong BIG STYLE. Most of the time the care is excellent, because it is free at the point of delivery no one who is seriously ill or injured in an accident has to wait for care or worry if their insurance will cover it. The BBC have been running a series of programmes about the NHS called 24 hours in the NHS, if you can get it on i-player then please watch them as they will tell you more about the NHS than a few answers on here could ever do. Most people in the UK are totally perplexed about the US distaste for the NHS, there are many people alive today (including me) who wouldn't be here without the skill and dedication of doctors and nurses in the NHS

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I think you get told that by the health care lobby who don't want our kind of NHS (National Health Service) because it means they won't be able to charge the huge fees they currently do. And of course health insurance companies would end up largely put out of business. This was a sticking point when the NHS started in 1948 but Aneurin Bevan, our health minister at the time, persuaded doctors to go for it because they would still be able to have a private practice. Sneaky man... of course everybody immediately used the NHS. Private health care still exists in the UK for those who want it and can afford it, and health insurance is often provided by large employers as a perk, but it only ever covers "jumping the waiting list" for an operation.

Let's face it, we all have to pay for our health care one way or another. You do it by health insurance: we do it through higher taxes. For those who can't afford it, they are subsidised by those who pay more tax. Thus there is no need for Medicare or Medicaid. I have a friend in NJ who depends on a number of medications and is forever involved with drug company paperwork to get them cheaper. Here, he'd just be given them at a flat prescription charge - and now he's over state retirement age, he'd get them all free.

The NHS is the largest employer in the UK, has to live within a budget and there are always arguments about what it will or won't pay for. And Brits are good at whinging! I love the system, and it also forces doctors and hospitals to be efficient.

My last major experience of it was when I was in a car crash 10 years ago. I was scanned in all possible ways, stitched up where needed, spent 4 days in hospital, was loaned crutches until the broken bones healed, in general had everything done that was needed or medically possible, and I didn't pay a penny. My mother had both her hips replaced totally free. (She was born with malformed hip joints, always had trouble walking and needed those replacements at a relatively young age.) My father died of brain cancer and had brain surgery to cut out as much of the tumour as possible, followed by radiotherapy to try and kill off the rest, and once again, all free.

There are cases where there is a LONG wait for surgery or the NHS refuses to pay for some experimental drug but these are the minority. After 65 years' experience of it, we wouldn't have it any other way and political debates are only ever about how it should be run and the size of the budget, never about whether we should got back to totally private health care on the US model.

You are hearing propaganda from the US Health Insurance companies.

The others have already told you a lot about it. I can add a bit more.

I have friends who suffered from cancer. Their operations and chemo therapy were free.

I have friends and relatives that required knee or hip replacements. There had been long waits. Now the NHS pays for their operations in private hospitals. They only had to wait a few weeks for treatment.

Medicines are free (Some people pay £7.85 for a prescription charge. Some are exempt).

as a results of fact a lot funds is given out via the coverage firms to steer away from well-being Care Reform. the wealthy and the Politicians have each thing they choose and extra and don't care touching directly to something human beings. i'm asking merely for WE the folk to get what the Politicians (at our cost) have. Now that must be democratic and equivalent.

No, it is not all bad. Your media wants you to believe socialised medicine is bad. Ours does, too, for whatever reason.

First off, it is NOT free. We pay national insurance. For our money, we get ALL community and hospital health care paid for. (we have to pay a small, fixed charge- around £8 per prescription, for community issued prescriptions). We never have to pay to see a doctor. Those who are on a low income or have certain conditions do not pay prescription charges.

We also get: free birth control, free maternity care, free fertility treatment (variable by area) free vaccinations. Free mental heath therapy/care. Affordable dental care (I paid £17 last month for a check up, polish and X-Rays). Free food in hospitals. The elderly, get carers, if they need them, and can't pay for them.

Now, the NHS DOES have some problems. A big one is people on free prescriptions get EVERYTHING prescribed, down to OTC meds. (I personally think, if you can buy it OTC, the doctor shouldn't be prescribing it). You get people who don't pay into the system abusing it (families were neither parent works having more and more children etc). Staff shortages in some places.

But, on the whole, if I needed life saving treatment, I would be more than happy to go NHS.

My last hospital stay- I had some chest pains. I was whizzed in, got an ECG, blood tests, X-Rays, spent a night in a bed being monitored. Blood tests to rule out heart problems, scan to rule out clot in the lungs etc. Nurses to monitor to make sure I was alive still. Breakfast in the morning. All tests came back clear for a heart attack or blood clot (had another diagnosis, though)- discharged with some medications. Never paid a penny, AND they offered to pay for a taxi to take me home! (I declined the taxi as perfectly able to pay for my own). Apparently, my overnight stay was £1,000+.

It is not as good as it was. ( Remember British made cars in the past? Always breaking down but Brits still said that they made the best cars in the world. People stopped buying them.) but it is Still the 18th best state health service in the world.

Like the curate's egg, "it is good in parts".

Having said that I know of someone who was left to go blind by the NHS Croydon who said that they could not help him. But he was rich enough to go private in Barcelona and is working again.

This begs the question did the UK hospital not give a damn? Could not do it? Jihad? ... Or had the eye department at Croydon just broken down and was staffed by inadequately trained, incompetent people ?

Everyone knows someone who has been let down by the NHS.

By the way. It is not free. It was in the very beginning but from its inception people have paid through a compulsory deduction from their wages (even Christian Scientists).

The NHS was proposed by the Liberal politician Beverage.

it's great, there are a few people who will whine loudly because the nhs didn't make all their dreams come true, but for every one of them there are thousands who have had their lives saved or major illnesses treated, and anybody who want's to pay for private healthcare can get everything that is available in the states .

How many times do you hear of people in the us who have treatable cancer, but cannot afford the treatments?

Simply doesn't happen here.

My mum died of cancer, as it happens, but before that she spent about 5 years having operations, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and I don't know how many medications. Why it killed her in the end was because she had a tumor which they wouldn't operate on because they thought she simply wouldn't survive the operation. None of it cost a penny, well, it did, obviously. but we didn't have to pay for it.

I see loads of questions on here from people in the us asking about small ailments they have, but which they don't want to go to a doctor about because they can't afford an appointment. If i want to see a doctor, I pick up the phone and make an appointment, I am not charged.

Around 85% of all prescriptions issued by the nhs are free, if you are one of the few people who does have to pay for them, then it costs £7.85 per item, or you can buy a prepayment prescription card for £104 per year, and that covers all medications you need for the entire year.

It is WONDERFUL. You are being told lies. I have been looked after with love and care after a road accident, have had an Op on my shoulder and back. I have a replacement knee and am having another one. My Mum had TB and was in hospital for months. We are taken by an amublance to A&E and given the best possible care. What can possibly be wrong with that. Yes we do pay out of our taxes but people who do not have jobs get it free. How can your Government be so wrong. They just want kick backs from the Insurers.

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We're told the same about your system.

Our system whilst not perfect is in my opinion miles better than yours. I don't know Canada's system, but having to phone up some insurance company for them to authorise my care like I do for my dog isn't something I aspire to. The NHS is an excellent system, in 9 cases out of 10 it works wonderfully. My grandmother fell recently, broke her hip, and despite the endless information from media everywhere that the NHS writes anyone who's over 70 off, she had her operation the very next morning (couldn't do it that night as she had eaten) and was given excellent after care, like physio, both at the hospital and at home, a hospital bed delivered at home as it helped, all sorts of things to aid her recovery. Can't see that happening in the US. I don't think you should believe everything you read. Your media is far too scared of you getting rid of the rich insurance companies that hold you all to randsom.