>A lot of German primary care doctors don't even hire office staff. They prescribe whatever they want, swipe your medical card, and they're guaranteed to be paid in a week, no questions asked.
It seems to work that way in France too, my mother lives over there half the time. She gets medical appointments and treatment almost immediately for almost anything where in the UK she'd be in multi-month long queues. I'd take the NHS over the US system any day, but there definitely seem to be useful lessons to learn from Europe as well.
I'ma huge Maggie fan, she was our best post-war PM by far, and a good candidate for best PM ever, but her market based reforms of the NHS were utter failures.
It seems to work that way in France too, my mother lives over there half the time. She gets medical appointments and treatment almost immediately for almost anything where in the UK she'd be in multi-month long queues. I'd take the NHS over the US system any day, but there definitely seem to be useful lessons to learn from Europe as well.
I'ma huge Maggie fan, she was our best post-war PM by far, and a good candidate for best PM ever, but her market based reforms of the NHS were utter failures.