The U.S. Health Care Debate

[Idaho]

That's what expenses are for, or just using one's clout to jump the que (mrs Blair had an extra SpR in Obstetrics with her in her NHS hospital).

Not so much using one's clout. More what Tudor Hart referred to as the "inverse care law". What happens with supposedly universal services is that the wealthier and more educated you are, the more you end up getting out of the system, based on 3 major factors:

- You are on the same/similar social class as the doctors and beauraucrats and understand how the system works
- You live, or can move, to the better provisioned areas (this happens a lot with state schooling in the UK)
- You can afford to embellish the universal care with extras.

I am still entirely in favour of universal schooling and medical treatment - it just has issues.