If the NHS is so wonderful, why isn’t the Royal Family using it?

The Royal Family are treated privately outside of the NHS. The vast majority of British people get equitable NHS care.

Does your run-of-the-mill chav get the same level of treatment as the Queen or her slightly demented grandson Harry? The egalitarian society you envision lives exclusively in your head.

So all 47 million uninsured and the many underinsured are treated as well as Ted Kennedy? Do they also all get regular screening? Is no one - repeat no one - left with unpayable bills despite being insured?

Tell that to the poor Canucks who have to drive to places like Buffalo for their imaging. Maybe your NHS could afford more modern imaging equipment if they weren’t throwing money away on useless crap like a homeopathy hospital.

“And of course access and short waits are prioritised for those with the best health insurance.”

Nonsense. Anyone can get a medically-necessary scan at a major trauma center. My wife got $3,000 worth of CT imaging without as much as an insurance card because her employer at the time was too lazy to fill out the paperwork.

You confuse the issue, medicine in the U.S. is the best, no doubt, for the wealthy!

No, he’d get a CT, which could easily have missed the lesion. Then he’d take anti-seizure medications until the seizures became intractable or some other neurological event, probably something that looked like a stroke, occurred. Then he’d be rescanned, and the CT would easily identify the 2cm mass lesion. Then the provicial authority would pat themselves on their collective backs for having saved a few dollars (canadian) on a test that would not have changed the outcome. Of course, it might not have been a glioma after all, but since it was, rationing the MRI was the “correct” thing to have done. Nice rectrospectoscope.

Yeah, all that fancy early detection of cancer stuff is just a big greedy capitalist con.