[JaggerJo]

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[tomhow]

Please don't post generic flamebait involving comparisons between nations/regions on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better than this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165849 and marked it off topic.

[jdross]

I’m married to a Brit and she is constantly in awe of how much better our healthcare is here in the US. And she paid for private insurance there too.

Quality of facilities, low wait times, quality of staff interactions, organization, etc.

She even freaks out about how we have free parking at our doctors and hospitals here!

We’re on corporate insurance.

[GJim]

So why are so many of your citizens without even basic affordable healthcare?

[lxgr]

US healthcare is excellent – if you can afford it.

[11101010010001]

What is the 'INSERTNAME' law that explains how all conversations on HN, which is ostensibly focused on tech, devolve (evolve) into the realm of the humanities?

[roromainmain]

UK isn't EU, especially when it comes to health system. I lived in the US for quite some time (from Fr), the healthcare is great... if you can afford an expensive health insurance AND pay some extra money when required. The avg US people can not pay and when you can not pay the experience is just far worth than terrible.

[JaggerJo]

It’s in progress. Most of Europe slept on that - thats true.

But pretty sure we’ll figure it out over the next decade.

[chaostheory]

One of the big reasons we have no universal healthcare is because we socialized defense for other countries like your country. You guys are years if not decades away from being able to defense yourselves.

[smelendez]

That’s not really true, as an American.

We spend a ton on healthcare anyway, just inefficiently and in a way that causes stress and struggles for patients.

[realo]

Defend against who? You?

I am in Canada, and the USA recently threatened to invade us, basically.

So we need to buy weapons from the USA in order to defend ourselves from the USA?

Sounds like mafia protection schemes.

[amrocha]

Do you think that if europe had tripled its defence spending over the last century the US would have spent more or less?