re: #683 rwdflynavy

If you have enough anecdotes, you have data. James Taranto has been publishing stories from UK hospitals for a while on his Best of the Web daily email. Worth a read.

I have lived in the UK, the USA and Western Europe. I have had surgery, and one of my close family members has a long-term critical illness.

I can categorically state that, given the choice, I (and the family member) would choose not to endure the US health care “system” 1000 times out of 1000.

I also know many other people who have experienced both, and the vast majority of them would say the same (though perhaps not with the same vehemence).