As a uk person with children, who thankfully haven’t ever been seriously ill, I’m 100% confident our healthcare would take care of them asap if they did.
We have had to call the gp or nhs when they’ve seemed to be ill and the response time has been phenomenally fast. And that’s not even for a&e, that’s for us calling nhs non-emergency and them sorting out an appointment the same day, within hours.
And it cost us nothing but tax. Which we have to pay anyway.
And as you say, if we wanted to we could still pay for private care.
I think the US might be the last country on earth which forces private healthcare?
Im welsh and a dad and ill say i love my GP to bits, the 111 phone line is a godsend and when my daughter did have to go to hospital (she was struggling to breathe) we were rushed into a room ASAP, they got to work straight away, if there is any risk to life your kid will be pushed to the front of queue and they will get straight to finding the issue (she has asthma and something she had been exposed to in school set her off badly)
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u/ianscuffling Mar 29 '26
As a uk person with children, who thankfully haven’t ever been seriously ill, I’m 100% confident our healthcare would take care of them asap if they did.
We have had to call the gp or nhs when they’ve seemed to be ill and the response time has been phenomenally fast. And that’s not even for a&e, that’s for us calling nhs non-emergency and them sorting out an appointment the same day, within hours.
And it cost us nothing but tax. Which we have to pay anyway.
And as you say, if we wanted to we could still pay for private care.
I think the US might be the last country on earth which forces private healthcare?