More myths! The NHS is not at some sort of extreme with most countries “somewhere in the middle”. The US is very clearly a massive outlier. Most of the OECD has systems fairly similar to the NHS, som… (View Post)

No-one around the world has exactly the same health system as the UK, but many other countries have pretty similar systems, e.g. Italy, Spain, Portugal, New Zealand. The constant repetition of this m… (View Post)

This all goes back to GPs in 1945 being opposed to the creation of the NHS, so the government let them stay out of the system and remain independent. (View Post)

You jest amusingly, but I suggest apologetic fascism is alive and well. We see it among those who say they've moved to the hard right because the Left forced them to with all their "wokery&… (View Post)

Half of the last 30 years have had Conservative Prime Ministers in number 10. The UK has the sixth largest GDP in the world. We're 20th on GDP per capita. We're 17th on the Economist's… (View Post)