Why does UK healthcare feel so bad and doctors seem incompetent?

[Mastergirl]

Doctors here are so incompetent it's crazy.

[Orion84]

Lmao, come visit the US.

It's just as bad here, except you get the "privilege" of paying $150/month for insurance, and still get charged $300 for the doctor's visit.

Unless it's something major, then it's several thousand dollars.

[Theunfadeable]

Sounds like a case of you get what you pay for. Free healthcare, Sounds great but free healthcareis gonna come with some serious downsides. Moron global sellout leaders basically opened up the UK’s health system to the whole Islamic world At one fucking time so you know the quality level isn’t gonna remain the same for long.

[AngryCarl3]

With all due respect it's not free healthcare, it's paid for by taxes. But sadly there has been a decline in the service.

[Sunshinelips]

Be grateful you don’t live in the US, the price they pay for healthcare is outrageous. Thousands of dollars just to have a baby, when we get to go to our local hospital and have one for free.

[jahaims]

Don't have kids if you can't afford it. Pretty simple.

[Jen_oic]

@mastergirl

It is so crazy, you’re right about this

[AngryCarl3]

I'm going to stick my neck out and say most doctors are pretty good, but under immense pressure. You can add to that underfunding and understaffing. Because like, who would want to be a nurse when you get paid more to work in an office?

[Mastergirl]

Doctors are paid very well here, more than the work they do

[jamesgoldman]

DEI means hiring 'doctors' basic on protected characteristics rather than skill or medical competence

[AngryCarl3]

With all due respect that's bullshit. Doctors still have to qualify. If it seems a lot of doctors represent ethnic minorities it's because they are prepared to put in the work.

[jamesgoldman]

They've been hired on forged qualifications and can't do stuff a trained junior could

[jamesgoldman]

www.cps.gov.uk/.../fake-doctor-has-been-ordered-pay-back-ps406624-nhs-fraud-and-forgery-offending

[jamesgoldman]

https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j240

[jamesgoldman]

BBC News - Creosote for toothache - The fake GP who treated thousands over 30 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce98j208254o

[AngryCarl3]

And if you read about crime all the time everyone in the country is a criminal.

[jamesgoldman]

They usually are if you count motoring offences and petty theft

[beefcakebradybatson]

I read in The Economist Magazine that U. K. "healthcare" is stanky a**, to be expected from a country poorer than dog s**t Mississippi sans London.

[Shiprex]

It isn't from my experience but I haven't used it in 5 years

[KostasKouvalis]

Because in the UK, it's very difficult to sue them for malpractice

[eagle1951]

don't come to the USA it sucks big time here

[queenofcardio]

It's the same in so many places