A National Health Service for USA?

Barack's support for a National Health Service for America prompts us to examine our own health service in the UK. I suppose you could say that for serious problems the NHS is quite good - fast service and expert care; but for 'minor' problems it is poor - a long wait and no guarantee of the level of clinical expertise you might receive. The NHS costs close to £100billion every year! Yes, that's about £3,000 out of the taxes of every working adult - £6,000 for a couple. If you decided to add good private health insurance to bring you close to the benefits of the existing American health system, that would cost an individual about another £1500 a year, making £4500 in all. Now, to maintain a top notch public health system in the US, as now exists, would cost £1.3trillion at today's rate - that's about £5,000 out of the taxes of every US working adult. So the cost of a top-notch UK health service and ditto for the US is about the same. What I say is this; I want to see the best possible health service in the UK, not a second-rate one. In the UKpopdems world that first rate health service is paid for by employers as their contribution to keeping Britain healthy. Their reward is the complete elimination of corporation tax. That brings many more profitable corporations to the UK and that leads to more employment and that in turn leads to both a healthy and a wealthy Britain.
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