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by johnorourke 987 days ago
Like a kind of Service, for Health, covering the whole Nation... a National Health Service, perhaps! Sorry, brit here, couldn't resist. It's really interesting seeing (in my unscientific view) America slowly realising it needs to reform profit-driven health, while England's government slowly privatises its existing "free at poinnt of use" service and makes it harder for poorer people to access good health care.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_insurance_option for those missing the connection.

NHS comes across to me as government funded healthcare rather than a gov-kickstarted not-for-profit insurance option. Am I missing a nuance? Not familiar with NHS so I could have a wildly wrong impression of what it is.

Healthcare and medication are different things and as long as we continue to conflate the 2 everyone will be talking past each other.