re: #82 Dr Lizardo

That response by AmericanInEngland is pretty good, I have to say. It certainly made me chuckle, because ‘AIE’ nails the Freeper mentality dead on.

From his forum posts, It would appear that AmericaninEngland is something of a mole or infiltrator from the reality based community, quite biting at times too:

Because being sick in America means that lots of corporations make lots of money off of you. That’s why America has the most sickness.

Ah, Corvettes, the Viagara (sic) of cars. Old guys with little endowment love em, especially when their Hummers get too difficult to climb into.

The NHS horror stories are mostly just that, stories. I had a colonoscopy show possible colon cancer and was in for further investigation within days. The wife had a yearly post breast cancer (diagnosed while we lived in the US and we had to wait 3 months for insurance to approve the mastectomy) show numbers that worried the NHS doc, and she was in treatment by the end of the week.

Non life threatening stuff may take months, ie, joint replacement or dental issues, bit otherwise, it ain’t that bad, and you’d be hard pressed to find many Brits that would trade it for the American model.

Is it perfect? Hell no. Is it as bad as you read about at sources with a vested interest in scaring Americans away from an NHS style system in the US? Hell no. Here in the UK, when ER waits hit 2-3 hours, it’s a scandal, in America, 2-3 hours was a short wait.