So frightening is the Yankee example that any British politician who values his job has to explicitly disavow it as a possible outcome. Twice.
"We will not be selling off the NHS, we will not be moving towards an insurance scheme, we will not introduce an American-style private system," Prime Minister David Cameron emphatically told a group of healthcare workers in a nationally televised address last week.
In case they didn't hear it the first time, Cameron repeated the dreaded "A"-word in a list of five guarantees he offered the British people at the end of his speech.
Keep in mind this full throated defense of Socialized medicine is coming from their version of a Draconian right-wing lunatic, the guy who's closing down all the libraries and slashing funding for the BBC so his buddy Rupert Murdoch can swoop in and fill the void.
You know you're screwed when even the right wing kooks in other countries point and laugh at what passes for health care in the US.
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