Friday Pot Pouri

As I pay my hefty health insurance premiums ( I could buy a new car every year with what it costs our family to purchase insurance) I saw this article:

British Fear "American Style" Health Care System

As leaders debate ways to reform healthcare, politicians repeatedly tell a worried public that Britain will not turn the National Health Service into an 'American-style' private system.

American Style Health Care terrifies the British and as the government is looking to overhaul their system, people are most frightened of the imposition of an "American Style" system. The system with the highest cost, some of the worst outcomes in the industrialized world and where people lose their homes because of health care related bankruptcy.

"Ask a Briton to describe "American-style" healthcare, and you'll hear a catalog of horrors that include grossly expensive and unnecessary medical procedures and a privatized system that favors the rich. For a people accustomed to free healthcare for all, regardless of income, the fact that millions of their cousins across the Atlantic have no insurance and can't afford decent treatment is a farce as well as a tragedy."

I fear our "American Style Health Care", too, but I find it interesting that the British system with all of it's warts and costs, is far more preferable to them than an American Style system.