National Public Radio Considers Health Care in the U.K.

As a sort of piggyback to Jen’s post regarding drug cost-effectiveness in the U.K. and other countries as compared to the U.S., I thought I’d post about a series that National Public Radio (NPR) is doing called “Health Care for All”. The series is looking at health care in the U.S. and comparing it to the systems in Western Europe, including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the U.K.
Health care coverage in the U.S. is described in the series as dependent upon “how much is in your bank account” or “your employer”, while the U.K. coverage is “a system of …read more