BRITAIN'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM COSTS PATIENTS AND BUSINESSES BILLIONS

Government-run health care in Great Britain has imposed huge costs on patients and businesses by denying treatments and medications.

According to the National Center for Policy Analysis:

• Great Britain lost a total of $208 billion in the overall economy to illness and treatment.
• This figure includes $127 billion in potential earnings based on productivity, $81 billion in paid mental health leave and $50 billion in direct costs to friends and family members tasked with caring for the ill.

NHS's negative effect on the British economy is causing tension within the government and among British citizens:

• An April Gallup poll showed only 7 percent of British citizens were very satisfied with their health care system.
• Twenty-five percent of those polled said they were extremely dissatisfied with their care.
• Another 27 percent were somewhat dissatisfied. [that makes over half, i.e. most]

Analysts credit the more incentive-based American system for the lower overall cost and higher productivity found in U.S. health care, particularly in comparison to the government-centered British health care apparatus...

[summary: our way works better, warts and all - let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater by going from however-bad-you-think-it-is to unavoidably-worse just to register some dissatisfaction - you'll pay for it.]

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