Universal Health Care versus Privatized Health Care

The_Amber_Spyglass wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:One day in the future, you'll be a Palin fan while i still question her (which I do).

Never. The woman is an insufferable moron and worse - proud of it. And the one thing I cannot abide is prideful ignorance being passed off as a virtue *COUGH* 1oldminer *COUGH*. How could I support a woman who thinks that the planet is 6000 years old, that evolution is all a lie, a rapture cultist and a woman who didn't even know what the term "bail out" meant. McCain's choice of her as a potential VP would have been enough to put me off voting for him, but her stupid comment about fruitflies was the point of no return.

The_Amber_Spyglass wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:Isn't that what media does though?

Is it really so wrong to expect any sort of journalistic integrity? Since when did news reporting stop being about reporting events and more about how we can skew it to appeal to the prejudices of the readership?

BecMacFeegle wrote:

Universal HC is NOT there to be on par with private HC, it is there to offer an alternative to those who can't afford private HC.

That might be the case in Germany, but it certainly isn't in the UK. The NHS is the standard - it is what everybody uses, even those who have private health care have to pay for it and they have to use it too. It uses the same staff and often the same facilities. There are some treatments you simply can't get privately - and your first point of call, for private or solely NHS patients, is your NHS GP.