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The British National Health Service (NHS) may not be perefct but it is difficult to achieve the last 5 or 10 percent of anything. Also it is open to public criticism in a way that private health companies are not. In this country we are free to join private health schemes and a number of people do but private schemes have never been popular because the NHS is so good that people such as myself who could afford private insurance cover don't see the need to do so. I used to be a design engineer and my wife a teacher before we retired. We contributed our national insurance according to our ability to pay and didn't feel cheated that we were probably paying more than some other people. When we got into our sixties my wife developed diabetes and also had breast cancer. I developed a blocked artery in my heart. We have had wonderful care from dedicated professionals, our medication is free of cost and we are monitored all the time with reminders coming through the post and on E-Mail to attend the doctor's surgery. The comments about UK healthcare in the US media is wrong and what is appalling is that people in US seem to believe the misinformation that they are being given it actually amounts to lies. I suppose that the best thing about the National Health Service is that you don't have to be worried about the financial penalties of you or any member of your family being sick or being in an accident. Everything will be taken care of by people who really care about medicine and nursing. You are not in the care of a company's accountants.
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