Impeding changes to our Health Care system

Originally Posted by Undertoad

.... No proposal is anywhere close to an NHS-style solution.

You get it.

Others, particularly, among the conservative talking head circuit, don't get it...either because they just dont understand the difference between proposals for universal coverage as opposed to a single payer system or more likely because they want to use "European socialism" as a wedge issue, along with the "death panel" fear-mongering.

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Yes and here's the catch. Most of the meaningful treatment Hawking has received will have been developed through a massive investment in research and development in the USA. Most ALS research happens in the USA.

And if you google for british als research you will find some research being done in British Columbia, Canada, and ALS meetings held in the British Virgin Islands.

Hawking is alive because the American health system offers incentives for the discovery of new treatments.

Much of the basic R&D has been, and continues to be, underwritten by NIH to some extent. Many trials for new drugs are subsidized or underwritten by NIH.

Big government in action.