What intrigues me is the naive notion that National healthcare equals the government running the system.

That is certainly NOT how it happens in the NHS.

The government funds it

The Primary Healthcare Trusts manage and administer distribution of those funds, and MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS run the frontline care.

The government is not in any way micro-managing patient care.

I would have thought that was preferrable to your current system of being ripped off if you HAVE insurance, and left to die if you don't.

It's the twenty first century, and well past time the USA got with the plot.

Don T.