This is precisely why one of Donalds first, and most important so far, jobs was to undo Obamacare... socialist schemes cost EVERYONE dearly... in this case, personal health insurance premiums practically doubled overnight
That is just plain wrong. Data shows that the USA's
incredibly efficient capitalist system, has spent more per capita than our
socialist system, every year since about 1960.
A big issue facing the NHS at the moment is the cuts made to social care. Since 2009/10 total spending has fallen 13.5% (more in real terms) while the number of people over 65 grew 18% and those over 85 grew 17%. Consequently you have elderly people who aren't getting the care that they need (or, haven't saved enough to look after themselves in old age, if you turn it on its head).
So these people get ill and end up in the only place that an ambulance will take them. Then, once the hospital has sorted them out, they often can't be discharged as there is nowhere for them to go where they will get the level of care that they need. As the hospital owes them a duty of care, they can't just kick them to the curb.
I experienced this first hand last year when my dad went into hospital. He was on a ward of 8, 3 of whom had nothing medically wrong with them, but there was no-one in place to take care of them (one needed to be in a home, two needed health visitors) so they just stayed on the ward for the entire two weeks my dad was in, and were still there after he came out.
So now it's almost impossible to see a Doctor outside office hours and it's damn hard to see one within the Monday - Friday 9 to 5 window for that matter as well! Try phoning your local surgery to make a non urgent appointment for next Tuesday afternoon for example, and you'll get told to phone before 8am on the day. When you do that you invariably get told there are no appointments available, but if it's not urgent they might be able fit you in next year!
I very much like our local GP's system, you call up in a morning, they assess you over the phone, either give you an appointment of tell you to buzz off to the pharmacy. Funnily enough, when I had a rash, fever and had just got off a plane from china, I didn't have to wait "we can see you in 30mins, but if you start to feel worse come immediately".
Under the system most GP's operate, I'd have been another one in A&E (as it turned out I had cellulitis and needed treatment reasonably urgently) who could have avoided being there.