Why do anti-health care change people use the UK example?

Other than the language, there's really little else in common with the US and UK in terms of health care today or even in an Obama-sponsored system. The better comparison would be the French system where there is a mix of public/private but of course, the anti-change people don't want to make that comparison because the French system is consistently rated among the best in the world. Oops. Now that's not very convenient, is it? How much French-bashing can they do when the French system is number one compared to the US at number 37 and even the UK at 18? What does it say about the US system if it's so far behind such a failing system like the UK's NHS?

What is always missing in these ridiculous attack adverts by the right wingers are the stories from America, by Americans. I have a few to offer myself, in case they're interested. I also remember the glorious moment when a doctor asked my father for almost $30,000 to be a guinea pig for a new pharmaceutical drug test. He almost wrote the check (which in itself was a miracle but probably would have killed him) but the pharmaceutical decided that he might not help show the results they wanted, so they canceled his involvement in the test. Now there's some good old fashioned free market capitalism that serves the public so well. Best system money can buy, if you have the money.

What fool believes that the US health care system does not ration treatment? Instead of the government telling you what you can and can't do, in the US it's the insurance companies who tell you to use this doctor or how much treatment you are allowed to have. In the US you need to confirm with your insurance company if they will allow whatever treatment. Huh. Interesting for a free market system but that doesn't happen here in socialist France in most circumstances.

As always, the anti-health care change people are cherry picking and hoping that you will overlook the miserable system that they love and support. The Republicans act like it's still the Clinton years and that people are running in fear of this change. The world has changed but never the GOP. Same as it ever was.