re: #147 engineer cat

what the intelligent morons are mulling over

Why do the British like their sub-par health system so much? Is it ignorance or ideology?

The average Briton or Swede is unlikely to know that the five-year survival rate for colorectal cancer is 51.6 percent in Britain but 59.8 percent in Sweden, or that the 30-day fatality rates for myocardial infarction in those two countries are 6.3 percent and 2.9 percent, respectively. (The figures for the United States are 65.5 percent and 5.1 percent.)

imagine, and the brits still love their system for sentimental reasons such as the fact that they will never get stuck with a bill for $30 thousand dollars for a one week emergency stay in a hospital without insurance, or find themselves paying an extra $600/mo for insurance while between jobs