Half of PCPs in the NHS make more than 100,000 pounds (about $200,000). So the arguments for maintaining the status quo “just being about the money” somewhat rings false.
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Remember the brain drain when the NHS kicked in and there was an exodus of docs to the US and Canada.Now will Fp and office based IM docs try to move to UK?
Primary care is cheap. Specialty care is expensive.
When government runs healthcare, votes drive the system.
Thousands of voters remember their PAP smear was free. Maybe one voter will remember the denied chemotherapy….if the person even lives long enough to vote.
So yes, I am not surprised that primary care is treated well in a NHS-style system.
And if enough remember to get their free pap smear then it will cut down on the need of some chemotherapy.
its called preventative medicine. Its not a big focus here in American medicine. We focus more on cancer treatment, treating heart attacks and strokes after the fact, far more than we do on preventing such things. our focus needs to change.
A PAP smear is first-dollar coverage in most insurances. Heck, even in my high-deductible health plan (HDHP) in my Health Savings Account, it’s first-dollar coverage.
The health department does PAP’s free for the indigent. That’s true most everywhere I’ve lived.
Anyone who thinks the Brits are not having their own problems getting cancer screening paid under the NHS has not been following the UK press.
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