Reply #4: The UK and NHS is kind of its own thing [View All]

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

No one anywhere as part of this discussion ( as far as I am aware)is talking about setting up anything like the NHS in the UK, so the comparison just isn't there. I guess our VA hospital system would be the closest thing we have in the US to the NHS. But most confine the discussion to Single PAYER, not Single PROVIDER.

I was speaking specifically of the countries I have heard cited for having private insurers that are highly regulated by their countries - Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands.

The US just does not have the guts or morality to regulate health insurance like other countries do. Profit is more important than the welfare (both physical and fiscal) of the populace.