Rationed health care in UK on par with communist

Daily Mail:

British health care is little better than that of former Communist countries, which spend a fraction of the billions poured into the NHS.

A survey published yesterday by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development sees Britain languishing with the Czech Republic and Poland in international league tables on health.

The OECD - which represents developed Western countries, some former Soviet nations, Mexico, Japan and South Korea - compared healthcare standards among its 30 members and found that we lag even further behind the wealthiest nations, such as France, Sweden and Germany.

The figures showed:

• British cancer and heart attack victims are more likely to die than almost anywhere in the developed world;
• Asthma and diabetes patients are more than three times as likely to end up in hospital as their neighbours in Germany;
• Life expectancy in Britain - 79 years and six months for a man - is far worse than in France, where men expect to live until 81. The deficit is similar for women.

Britain performed only marginally better than former Communist states whose governments spend only half as much on healthcare.

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A lack of competition breeds inefficiency and cost controls that ration care and ultimately a triage that lets a lot people who would live in the US.