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Just so we're absolutely clear, I can choose my own doctors. GP's, specialists, dentists, and even a Homeopath!; if I don't like 'em, I can find another, and all on the NHS. I think, in fact, I have more choice than Americans--don't you have to go to whomever your HMO tells you to use? Also, your Canadian neighbours to the north get to choose their doctors.
Most medical plans create doctor pools and aggressively recruit doctors for those pools. I've never found a doctor that didn't accept my insurance.
1.) There is a very common assumptions in the USA that because a State funds healthcare, the individual is not allowed choice of doctor, which is incorrect in every public healthcare system I have used.
2.) That public or state run health care system is not substandard or less efficient to the American private system, but actually generally better for just about everyone.
3.) That if every American paid a flat 18% tax for healthcare (instead of any healthcare insurance premiums, whether paid directly by you, or by your employer), then the American government nationalised all American healthcare, every American should then receive at least a $4000 tax rebate. Then again your government could use that money fund better schools and universities.
[EDIT] And by-the-way, the UK Government still spends less than the American Government on every citizen, on healthcare. The American government spends $4437 per every single American citizen every year on healthcare. By contrast, the UK spends $2919 per person, every year. You tell me which tax payer is getting better value for money.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc...