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I don't buy the single payer/Obamacare/more regulation speech as the single healthcare fix. NHS has a ton of problems of their own.

We need a lot of doctors, more than what we are producing. It's baffling you need 100s of thousands of dollars to become a Dr in the US.

Remove the undergrad requirement to apply for med school, like most of the world, and fix the college affordability problems.

If the amount of money to produce doctors keeps escalating, it's not surprising medical care only goes up.



There is no single solution, the world isn’t that neat however the NHS problems and it does have them are a result in large part to it been a political football for decades.

Even with those problems we spend about half per capita on healthcare with about equal outcomes, also the US gov in one form or another already foots about 50% of the bill itself.

> Results The UK spent the least per capita on healthcare in 2017 compared with all other countries studied (UK $3825 (£2972; €3392); mean $5700), and spending was growing at slightly lower levels (0.02% of gross domestic product in the previous four years, compared with a mean of 0.07%). The UK had the lowest rates of unmet need and among the lowest numbers of doctors and nurses per capita.

https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6326

They do more for less with less and mostly do it well.

Compare that to any other major country and it’s good, compared to the US system it’s very good.

Does the US have amazing doctors, hell yeah of course but do they have a fair system when on average everyone gets what they need if not always what they want, I’d argue no.




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