Originally Posted by Relentless

In case anyone hasn't noticed....

There is an enormous gap between the way the current American system of profiteering necessary medical expenses works and the UK's centralized socialized system. Within the next 10-20 years both countries will wind up with a system that is somewhere between what each country has presently. Not a 100% socialized system with any and all care paid for by a single government plan... and not a price gouging privatized insurance system based on scamming consumers and bilking health care providers.