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Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Perhaps there are private models that can be made to work over the long term (although, likewise, I'm certainly not in favour).
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Yeah, most European countries have an exceedingly complicated health insurance system, with at least one type of health insurance provided by the state, and often overlapping systems organised by trade. Any introduction of this kind of system would be a massive nightmare, logistically, but there are lots of big insurance companies that would LURVE to slip into the UK's health sector.
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The Dutch system offers a huge choice of insurers, some are not for profit companies, some specialize in certain areas (like end of life care), along with strong government cost control it looks nothing like the USA system.
Health care is super complex, no doubt some experts have good reasons to replace the NHS with a similar system.
But I don't think the NHS is that broken it needs replaced...and any replacement will cause new issues for sure.
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JWestland
The Netherlands is not like the NHS as one Tweeter thinks, but private with strong government cost controls and basic insurance gets refunded so people don't go without.
Not the worst system but I doubt that is what the privatisation politicians advocate :(
And I still prefer the NHS, I don't see the use of privatisation.