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by armitron 634 days ago
Are you living in the UK or just making baseless assumptions? For an ever-inceasing number of serious health issues, the NHS has been essentially non-functional for many years. I have friends with chronic conditions that are looking to emigrate becase they're dreading their health getting worse in a system that's doing nothing to help them.

"NHS would be great except for the bad politicians" is not a serious argument.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nhs-collapse-hospitals...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/23/uk/uk-nhs-crisis-falling-...

[3] https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/how-bad-nh...

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It's underfunded. I'm willing to bet that the countries they're thinking of moving to either spend more on healthcare as a proportion of GDP than the UK does or don't have healthcare that's free at the point of use (or both).