1. Why do British people put up with the #NHS? Yes, it’s partly because English people in particular like masochism and suffering, but that’s not all of it. Some say it’s a religion, but they’re confusing the public propaganda for what people believe. In private, everyone moans.
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2. Let’s imagine that there was a National Car Service instead: Automobiles free at the point of access, say, every five years. We could do this, probably more cheaply than the NHS. Transport is, arguably, as essential as health—esp in the modern economy.
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3. The reason that the “NCS” would fail is tha it would be immediately obvious that it didn’t work. Cars would arrive 4 or 9 months late. There would be waiting lists for cars. The range of cars would be limited. Performance would be poor & cars would break down all the time.
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Ha! You’ve just described buying a car in the Soviet Union or any of its satellite states!
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Yes, exactly. The difference is that with a car the problems are obvious. People still say good things about, say, Cuba’s health system that they wouldn’t say about Cuba’s other industries. It’s a cognitive blindspot.
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