Quote Originally Posted by jim02 View Post
As for the crock about the UK healthcarre, i sure hope you were joking, if not put down the koolaid and stop watching that fat lards movies.
Go try it out some time, oh and bring your wallet thay take cash. Be prepared to wait some time to get in for actual treatment.
Dont belive me, go talk to some people that imigrated to the USA form the UK and ask how top notch it is.
Go watch the PBS special on world healthcare, they compare the top healthcare around the world, if after that you still think the UK is top notch, you must have had the tv on mute. The UK healthcare is falling apart.
I'm actually from the UK, so I have tried out the NHS many times and the most I have ever had to pay for anything was about $10 for a prescription (this is the standard rate for anyone over 18, employed, and under pensionable age, regardless of the amount or type of medication you are getting). I would love to understand why when I am referring to both personal experience and facts to back up my claims, and you're using hyperbolic scare emails to back up yours, I'm the one who has drunk the koolaid.

There is no perfect healthcare system out there, and I am not going to deny that the NHS has its problems, but almost all of the 'information' that I have read about the British healthcare system recently has been completely bogus.

Ah, I just realised what you meant with your 'fat lard' comment. I haven't seen Sicko. I saw Bowling for Columbine when I was still living in the UK, and I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 when I lived in Florida, but I find him to be a little too strident even for me, and I would consider myself a liberal.