British Defend NHS Against U.S. Criticism

But can't everyone agree that the U.S. health system is not working as it currently is set up? Just last week, Remote Area Medical Foundation brought dozens of volunteer doctors, dentists, nurses and other healthcare professionals to a sports arena in Los Angeles to provide free medical services to the uninsured. The Foundation usually brings its services to severely impoverished areas of the world, and has staged health clinics in rural parts of the United States, Mexico, and South America. In its first foray into an urban area, the turnout was so large that hundreds had to be turned away.

Would it be so wrong to at least partially nationalize a health system so people don't have to be turned away? Someone should ask the hundreds of uninsured that went to the free clinic in the Los Angeles what they think about U.S. system—it is likely that they would agree that a system modeled after the NHS would not be all bad.