One important way the UK's NHS is much worse than America's private health system

[Northerner]

I recently wrote about my experiences using both the UK's NHS in London and the US system in New York. I concluded, after 20 years using both, that I preferred the NHS — it's free, quick and the care is the basically the same. Americans need not fear socialised medicine!

Since then, I've had a huge number of emails from readers. (I've read them all, and tried to respond to as many as possible.) But the most interesting email came from Ross Binkley, who sent me a link to a US Centers for Disease Control study of waiting times in US emergency rooms. The CDC is America's big public health research agency and its data is generally extremely reliable.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/uk-nhs-worse-than-america-private-health-system-2015-2

 

[trophywench]

'figure out what they (the US) are doing right'

Perchance they may have enough staff? and enough beds and no bed-blocking? Might they be reasons?