>For decades the American people have been told that anything the government touches will be expensive, inefficient, and lead to a more taxes. Private sector knows best, and all that.
i have friends who have had to deal with the NHS and absolutely ridiculous (like year+) wait times for specialists.
frankly i find the american healthcare system quite good if you have good job-tied insurance. most of the problems arise because we don’t have any sort of triage for high need issues and thus get overutilization and high cost.
From personal experience, the quality of your insurance has little to do with wait times. I had best-in-biz FAANG insurance and I still had to wait months for dermatology and ENT appointments, for example.
The quality of your insurance definitely impacts wait times. HMOs are often faster and if you have medicaid you're going to look at much longer wait times for the specialists that accept it.
Months for specialists sounds bad (during covid the waits in the Bay Area got pretty bad), but for context on the NHS, they are currently targeting having more than 65% of patients served within ~5 months and they don't even make that target. Even the extremely capacity constrained Bay Area isn't close to that level of dysfunction.
Well, every municipal broadband service I've tried has been better than the laughable garbage some ISPs offer out in rural areas, where they have a monopoly.
Do you have some counter arguments?