Comments on: We should question how we finance healthcare http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/the-edge/economics/finance-healthcare-nhs-45598544/ Richard Northedge takes on corporate finance Tue, 22 May 2012 05:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David R http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/the-edge/economics/finance-healthcare-nhs-45598544/#comment-9562 David R Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:36:45 +0000 http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/the-edge/?p=374#comment-9562 Well, lord knows the UK system is far from perfect - but it manages to deliver a higher life expectancy than the american system, at half the cost. Without some of the clumsy market-oriented meddling - or should that be short-termist soundbite-oriented meddling - from politicians, the UK system might even be better than that of France, Spain, Germany, or Japan. As it is we have a system that is mostly good, occasionally bad, sometimes brilliant. Healthcare in the USA is now gobbling so much of the country's GDP - 16% and rising - that the health and insurance sector is a massive vested interest obstucting any efforts to improve outcomes, value for money, and social justice. 15% to 20% of americans get minimal healthcare, but they are now more or less balanced by 15% to 20% of americans whose livelihoods depend on the current expensive, bloated, and bureaucratic system of insurance based provision. I wish president Obama the best of luck in his endeavours to deliver better healthcare to his fellow Americans, he is taking on a vested interest group on a par with big oil or big tobacco. Well, lord knows the UK system is far from perfect - but it manages to deliver a higher life expectancy than the american system, at half the cost.

Without some of the clumsy market-oriented meddling - or should that be short-termist soundbite-oriented meddling - from politicians, the UK system might even be better than that of France, Spain, Germany, or Japan. As it is we have a system that is mostly good, occasionally bad, sometimes brilliant.

Healthcare in the USA is now gobbling so much of the country’s GDP - 16% and rising - that the health and insurance sector is a massive vested interest obstucting any efforts to improve outcomes, value for money, and social justice.

15% to 20% of americans get minimal healthcare, but they are now more or less balanced by 15% to 20% of americans whose livelihoods depend on the current expensive, bloated, and bureaucratic system of insurance based provision.

I wish president Obama the best of luck in his endeavours to deliver better healthcare to his fellow Americans, he is taking on a vested interest group on a par with big oil or big tobacco.

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