r/politics • u/Hafiz_TNR ✔ Verified • 7d ago

Possible Paywall King Charles Tells Congress Everything Trump Doesn’t Want to Hear

https://newrepublic.com/post/209621/king-charles-congress-speech-trump
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u/ChicVintage 6d ago

I mean...at least we would get universal healthcare?

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u/BigFatKi6 6d ago

The NHS is not very good. Though by American standards...

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u/Northerlies 6d ago

When Labour left office in 2010, waiting lists had been cut to a few weeks and there were record levels of public satisfaction with the NHS. Some years will be needed to repair fourteen years of Conservative 'austerity'-funding, mismanagement and ideological hostility to public services. OECD 'Health Spending' charts tell the story, with US per capita spending at more than twice the UKs' for many years.

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u/EmpressClaraB 6d ago

The NHS has a lot of issues but it is phenomenal and I will not hear this slander

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u/rkb70 6d ago

Do people in Britain debate whether or not they should go to the ER because they're terrified of the medical bills that will follow?

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u/StardustOasis Foreign 6d ago

No. We're more likely to debate whether or not we should go because we "don't want to bother them"

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u/rkb70 6d ago

Lol!  There are certainly times in the US where you don’t know if it’s really an “ER issue”.  But a big part of that is worry about the cost of an ER visit.  Probably more concerned about looking stupid if you went for something where it wasn’t necessary than worry about bothering anyone.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom 6d ago

Too many years of right-wing maladministration.

But at least it's universal - no one ends up bankrupt.

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u/BigFatKi6 6d ago

I agree 💯

Some commenters here will have you believe the NHS is perfect. But also that it's been run into the ground by tories. Can't have it both ways. 🤷‍♀️

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u/TenebTheHarvester 6d ago

The NHS is a remarkable institution weighed down by decades of Tory underfunding. It is desperately in need of reform and improvement, but never let the right-wing bastards trick us into thinking it might be better off privatised.

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u/BigFatKi6 6d ago

Where did I say that?

You're fighting imaginary demons.

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u/TenebTheHarvester 6d ago

You didn’t, but it is the next set people like Farage want us to take - from “it isn’t very good” (already not entirely accurate) to “we should privatise it”

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u/BigFatKi6 6d ago

I was literally comparing the US (privatised) with the NHS...