Just got a call from my drug insurance provider for medicare part D. (Aetna)

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54. NHS is socialized medicine.

Hospital and clinic staff are employees of the government, hospitals and clinics are owned by the government, and drugs are purchased by the government. Yes, that's "single payer" in a certain sense, but that's not how single payer works in Canada and other nations typically described as single payer.

People in England and Wales are dissatisfied with the NHS but they are also afraid of getting something worse. Their dissatisfaction is that they want the government to fix it, not chop it up into pieces to sell to the highest bidders.

The U.S.A. is almost universally recognized for having a wretched health care system, in terms of both cost and in terms of outcomes. We suffer mediocre medicine at outrageous prices.

What wealthy people in the U.S.A. don't know, and what affluent people who think they have good health insurance don't know, is that they too can be the victims of inappropriate, negligent, and downright dangerous health care. The overall quality of health care in the U.S.A. is not exceptional.