Tbh the way the media is even in the UK, Id believe it if I didnt have first hand experience of needing the health care!

Quote from: SamThe main things I hear are two things.

1. They wont want anything that will take away their choice, or cost them more money (most of my mates are white collar and dont need free healthcare).

2. They think public health care is crap. Its funny but everyone (from idiot to scientist) believes that in the UK you have to wait 6 months if you have a heart attack. I always laugh when people I think of as intelligent honestly think this.

Thing being they actually pay a lot more for their private health care than the UK does for its public service. Surveys have shown that despite everything they put into private health care the life expectancy in countries with public health care is significantly better than in the US.

Americans have a massive not invented here problem and chances are they always will. Public opinion paranoia rules, business is good, government is bad, and the media, owned by the rich, intends it to stay that way.

Then again good news rarely seems to sell a newspaper.