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The NHS is horrible, unless you've come from America

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The National Health Service (NHS) here in the UK gets bashed A LOT, and it's not completely unwarranted. The system is under funded and over-stretched. The huge amounts of money that were supposed to be available to the NHS after BREXIT never appeared, and because of BREXIT, many of the very talented caregivers who would normally come to work for the NHS aren't, due to new requirements and restrictions. As my husband likes to point out, Brits love to complain about most things, and the NHS is one of the top five. When I share just a little bit of my own experience with US healthcare, most people reply, "Oh. I guess the NHS isn't so bad after all."  At a friend's birthday party last summer, everyone was complaining about insurance not covering pre-existing conditions or expensive medication and the cost of the insurance itself. But they weren't discussing their own health insurance. They were talking about their pets ' insurance policies. That's rig...