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Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski
Nick
Concerning NHS or NES, the question is if those systems still work. Based on what I have talked to British subjects (including natives), it does not. Such ideas work perfectly in a short term period when there are amassed resources, but then they become burden, and then lead everything to collapse.
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IMO the collapse of systems like the NHS is caused by the huge profits made by the pharmaceutical industry (and other healthcare related industries). The duality of a "state controlled front end", but a completely free market "back end" creates huge drain on funds.
Once you put an end to the profiteering, you reestablish control on funding.
Profits are good, they spark innovation (although I don't think they are a guarantee for scientific revolution), but medicin is one area where cost is often completely out of proportion.
Perhaps I am a Pinko red, but I still believe that all people deserve an equally good health care system. If it requires state control to do it, so be it.