The Ledge's Monthly Approval of President Obama-Do You Approve??? August 2009

[Stew_Matthews]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

Your not wrong! I've never said its wonderful...far from it. I just don't like to see incorrect info posted. Touch wood I've only ever been in hospital three times, twice to have my kids and once for an ear op. I had no real complaints.

I wasn't having a go at you!

Although Brandon was making his points in a rather provocative way, he was right that the UK system is broken. Having said that, it is the best 'universal' healthcare system in the world. It just needs modernising and a recognition in the UK that healthcare needs to be a partnership between public and private providers. There are some interesting articles in the Times and Guardian about IVF this last week. When the NHS was created there was no demand for fertility treatments for example - medicine then didn't even understand the causes never mind solutions. As medicine and science moves forward, should the NHS be expected to pick up every single mediacl problem and fund the research and drugs. Probably not but in a public system, where do you draw the line? How do you determine priorites at a state level - my view is that you can't and the UK Regional Health Authorities prove that.