My point remains the same. The NHS is shit and leftists keep demanding the US go to that, rather than it's current system.
In the UK, you are forced to pay sky-high taxes for very basic medical care and if you want decent medical care after that, then you need to have insurance which isn't cheap.
It's nearly impossible to get a GP appointment in the NHS due to the fact that they are free and everyone running to them for even the most basic things like the sniffles.
In Scotland, prescriptions are free so people run to their GPs for everything, including aspirin which is extremely cheap over the counter. HOWEVER, it costs nearly £8 to process (write and fill, not counting GP appointment) a prescription making that £1 pack of aspirin cost the NHS nearly £9.
You'd expect business CEOs and employees to make decent money, but that's now the UK works. Senior management and above make tons of cash in government jobs. Thanks to Tony Blair, each hospital boss makes at least £4 million. Who knows what they are making now, a decade later. The guy that took over my old local hospital was making £150 for managing 10 BUPA hospitals but quit to become the boss of my local hospital and made £4.75 million under the NHS.
Remember one thing. The government doesn't care about you and your ability to pay, they will always get their money from you. If you can't afford your insurance you cancel it. You don't have that option for NHS payments.
Life expectancy in the UK is 1.9 years longer than the US. Remove obesity and the UK has a 6 year lower life expectancy. UK obesity rates are fast catching the US, so in a decade or so, even including that, life expectancy in the UK will be lower.
When you look at mortality rates, especially western ones, you will notice that the US is right in the mix with the countries with an NHS. Except for "external causes" (accidents, suicides, etc), the US wasn't the country with the highest death rate. As an example, death to circulatory system diseases, the US came in 4th after Austria, Germany, and Sweden.
The US has the 4th highest cancer survival rate, after Switzerland, Japan, and Sweden (respectively).
The UK has the highest death rate for respiratory diseases.
The US has the highest rate of death due to nervous system disease. This is mostly due to diabetes related nerve death. As I said before, if we exclude obesity, then the US does pretty well in this category.