The NHS is great unless you want to stay alive, according to a new report.
I've written about it for the Speccie.
The Commonwealth Fund is a US think tank that campaigns for
reform to the American healthcare system. In particular, it wants the US
to adopt the kind of universal healthcare coverage that is taken for
granted in Britain and Europe.
Every few years, it puts the healthcare systems of eleven
rich countries into a league table and the USA always come bottom. Fans
of the NHS (may peace be upon it) like these reports because the UK
always come at or near the top. The latest Commonwealth Fund study was
published today and Britain came top again. In your face, Australia!
Suck it up, Sweden!
Of the five criteria included, Britain does well on four of
them. It is only the fifth criterion – health outcomes – that lets us
down. When it comes to avoidable mortality, the NHS (may peace be upon
it) is not so hot and its
inability to heal the sick is, as the Guardian admits,’a significant weakness’.
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