re: #563 realwest

I grew up with the NHS, and from my own limited point of view, I found that it worked well. The only time I did a controlled comparison between NHS and private medicine was when I developed mononucleosis in late 1996. I went to the NHS doctor who duly performed a blood test and said that the results would be available within a week. My boss at the time cajoled me into going to his own private doctor who produced the blood test results on the same day, roughly 5 days ahead of the NHS. He then continued to monitor me in the usual way that one does for a mono-patient. My wife was rather less sanguine about the NHS during her first pregnancy, and we went private.