re: #611 Wishbone

I can’t speak for the Canucks, but that’s a pretty overgeneralised dismissal of British national thinking. Got any more good ones for us?

It is generalized. Read further for more details:

I don’t know how Brits and Canadians are brainwashed to feel toward their healthcare, but the ones you hear may be the loudest, youngest, healthiest voices — not a representative view. The elderly get treated despicably by the egalitarian welfare/healthcare systems, since they are seen as a cost-burden — treatments/resources devoted to them get a short time-span of usefulness (because the elderly have less to live), and are thus deemed wasted. Rare but life-threatening diseases are seen as unsuitable to fund either, because too few people benefit from treatment.

So young over-all healthy Brits may feel fine and dandy about resources being stripped from the elderly or those with rare acute diseases to serve them instead in keeping them healthy, but what’s that worth? Is it representative? Is it fair?

spectator.org

By objective metrics capturing the quality of healthcare, the British system falls considerably behind the American system, so I see no rational reason for Brits to be so satisfied with what they have.