Why doesn't America have a NHS care like the uk?

Question

Why doesn't America have a NHS care like the uk?

Answer 1

Belle I am sorry some people like eunice and David p are being such turds to you. You asked a simple question, and whether they agree with you or not, all they had to do was either answer the question or leave. Neither one of them choose that option. Instead they want to make veiled threats and insults. I have live in England myself, and have experienced the NHS as well. Although not perfect, it is a lot better than what we have in the US. Most of the people who oppose health care reform and are against an NHS like system probably don't even have a pass port, much less have lived in a country with a national health care system, so how can they make truly informed decisions? They can't. Instead they believe all the lies the Republicans and health insurance companies feed them about how bad and unreliable an NHS like system would be. Really it isn't their fault they can't think and form independent opinions, the government has not told the that is allowed ...LMAO!!!!!

Answer 2

It seems the profound misunderstanding of healthcare systems is represented on both sides of the Atlantic.

That said, the US is not the UK and if the US does not want the UK model (or anyone elses) that is up to the US.

You may prefer to pay higher taxes than directly for treatment but that does not mean everyone else does or should. The last thing I want is any more government involvement in the health care system. I would in fact like infinitely less government involvement, particularily at the federal level.



Finally, you are comparing the UK, a country almost half the size of California, with a population less than a quarted of the US. It makes a huge difference.

Answer 3

No other country in the world has copied the UK model of a "National Health Service" except Cuba, who are starting to dismantle theirs.



Although called "free", it is not of course. The proper name is "tax-funded". The basic model is flawed and destined to eventually collapse for a number of reasons.



1) The cost is becoming unsupportable due to the increased cost of health care.

2) There is a sense of injustice as tourists and recent incomers who have made no contribution receive free care.

3) The recently constructed 98 PFI hospitals which are rented from their owners are a huge and inflexible expense for the next 30 years. An increasing amount NHS money is needed for these.

4) The system is riddled with waste and inefficiency. (ie sick leave is almost twice the private sector).

5) NHS pensions are based on "final salary" and will thus take an increasing amount of NHS cash to subsidise. The NHS pension is a huge pyramid scheme, destined to collapse .



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Answer 4

The simple answer is WW2. The American mainland and infrastructure was never touched in WW2. Europe and Britain was devastated and had to find a health-care system that would benefit everybody instead of the for profit corporate system which America had.



The labour party devised a system through national health contributions in which your taxes go to towards health-care, education, and social security . There was tremendous opposition by the conservatives and the privileged at the time but the population voted out Churchill and put in the Labour party who implemented it and is now part of the most remarkable health system ever devised by mankind. Everybody has basic health care, whoever you are.

Answer 5

You wrote, "why wont America do the same?"



Because our politicians are corrupt, and the big health insurance companies that profit from of the misery of the American people pay them off to keep NHS-style health care out of the USA, simple as that.



Good luck!... :-D

Answer 6

We don't believe in paying for someone elses lifestyle or decisions. Essentially, that is what you do.

There is also the factor of of quality of care. Have you ever noticed how many specialists we have here? Or the amount of specialized care facilities? Or the amount of advances in medicine we have in the US?



The reason why IS we don't have NHS. You should be on your knees thanking God right now that we don't....otherwise there wouldn't be HALF the advances today.



Mayo Clinic?

Pfizer?

Answer 7

Chet elderson is why America don't have an nhs, ignorance! Where do you get your information from? Please tell me Chet what happens to sick Americans in treatment when there insurance runs out? We have a saying in England " a little knowledge is a dangerous thing "

Answer 8

1/America is on the verge of bankruptcy.

2/The politicians are part sponsored [owned] by insurance companies who make a lot of money through illness.

Answer 9

Despite the billions that ae poured into the NHS, the British people have one of the worst healthcare systems in the western world.



The scandal of hundreds of people dying of thirst, hunger and neglect at Mid Staffordshire hospial is just the tip of the iceberg:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327766/Mid-Staffordshire-NHS-hospital-scandal-left-1-200-dead-happen-again.html



How can anyone be proud of the NHS?

Answer 10

A lot of American Doctors, that I have come accross on forums etc. tend to be of the opinion that you should pay for the service just like anything else. Medical insurance pays for the bills, which is fine while the population is working. However, at the moment, with high unemployment, people are unable to pay for medical insurance and a lot of doctors are losing their jobs. So the American system is quite good, right up until the economy goes wrong.



However, the UK can not afford it's current level of medical provision either. Because it has been payed for by tax money, the NHS is very good at promoting people because they have been there a long time, and not because the role needed to be in place. A consequence of this is that the NHS has a lot of middle ranking professionals who are paid quite a bit, but do not deliver a viable roce. Like the American system, in order for the NHS to continue, people need to work. No work, no tax revenue, no hospital.



The danger of giant, tax guzzling public services are a bit of a horror for Americans. They do not have the urge to change this, since they believe that you get what you pay for and if it is a free, state run hospital, the service is going to be inferior.



However, the ideology of health care asside, the Federal govt can not afford to fund that sort of opperation. If you want to know where all of the money for a viable health care provision is, it is cruising around the seas playing top gun politics with various surface fleets. It is in Afghanistan in considerable force and it is along various boarders lookiing for a decent enemy to fight.



A military the size of the US's does not come cheap. One of the comments made by a British soldier stuck with me. They have everything. Their troops have body armour, more food than you can shake a stick at, a selection of weopons, electronic gear etc. In short, everything that money can buy. That is where the US healthcare schemes are. It has been an American ideology for pretty much the entire 20th century that the US would be a world power. Funding that sort of dream takes sacrefices. Introducting a broard spectrum health system, complete with hospitals, university hospitals and local level clinics would actually take more money than the US has available to it. bear in mind that they have a lot more citizens that us and larger distances to do it on. You might make an urban health care system work, but having a medical provision for every citizen in the US would pretty much bankrupt them, even if they drastically reduced arms spending, it would take years and billions upon billions of dollars to implement. Getting to the Moon would seem easy in comparison.



Luck

Answer 11

I can see us now, modeling our Health Care after the UK's Dental care.



If that is the form of slavery you choose, so be it. I would prefer to die on my feet than spend one minute kneeling to my government.



So how has UK health treated your Grandma and Grandpa. Are they getting all the care they need or just what the Government deems cost effective? Not here, not ever!



Old Guy

I have my own ins. thank-you

Answer 12

1. America is not a single island country like Brittan, it is 50 sovereign States

2. These States have not granted the federal government the authority to create a national health service.

Answer 13

It takes 7 seconds for Y.A. web page to load for me to be able to click on [add your answer] box. is my computer slow??

Answer 14

there's no such thing as free, uk residents pay for it thought taxes.

Answer 15

Because the US value their economy over peoples health.

Answer 16

Because the insurance companies won't allow it.

Answer 17

You don't get anything for free plus I read the news about the woman there that was refused an ambulance because a crew was on a meal break. We don't need that in America.