One interesting effect of this debate is that Britons seem to have stopped moaning about the NHS, which until now was one of those things we only noticed when it went wrong.
(You go to a hospital in Britain, get your leg seen to, and are back on the street; that's how you expect the world to work. You go to a hospital, they lose your paperwork and hold you overnight for no reason and without telling you what's going on; that's the bl**dy NHS for you...)
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Date: 2009-08-20 04:23 pm (UTC)One interesting effect of this debate is that Britons seem to have stopped moaning about the NHS, which until now was one of those things we only noticed when it went wrong.
(You go to a hospital in Britain, get your leg seen to, and are back on the street; that's how you expect the world to work. You go to a hospital, they lose your paperwork and hold you overnight for no reason and without telling you what's going on; that's the bl**dy NHS for you...)