Gee Chris either you have a vested interest in defending the shoddy British NHS or you haven't ever had to spend much time enduring the system.
> which was based on the communistic self help system the miners of south
>Wales set up with their general practitioners.
Rather than being an "island of communism" I always understood it as a necessity for a Brit ruling class which had discovered that the post-war work force was too debilitated to rebuild the bombed out British economy. Maybe you should instead make some comparisons between the NHS and realtively better healthcare in other European countries rather than the US.
-Russell (veteran of the Barts gastro-enterology dept)