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Derbyshire Delver's avatar

I think this demonstrates that a top down, Government controlled health care system is a danger to the public. If you get people in charge of it with an evil agenda then terrible things can be done with no effective checks and balances to bring any of it to light. The NHS is a threat to public health.

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Randall Burchell's avatar

The systems in Britain and US have both been corrupted by centralized control by bureaucrats and the influence of big pharma. In the US this was accomplished by inundating private practices with regulation and forcing them into hospital/ insurance based models to survive( I speak from personal experience) . These systems are dependent on government support through Medicare/Medicaid payments and are therefore always at risk of financial instability if they lose this income stream, which has grown larger as our population ages. The physicians themselves are at risk as employees instead of independent entities. The answer might be the direct primary care/cash model, which cuts out the layers of bureaucracy and might put the patient doctor relationship back in a healthier mode for both parties.

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