Sorry you just don’t seem to understand what a really good hospital ssytem looks like. Hell even the Canadian Minister from Nova Scotia came to the US for his heart stent surgery because the US provided better care.
Innovation, consistency of care, nursing staff, physician capability, and the ability to do what is needed ( as opposed to what is approved) make all the difference
I have, as a non-socialist, no problem with criticism of the NHS, although some of it from America verges on the silly and bizarre.
What I DO object to is the characterisation of Scottish and British healthcare and hospitals as backward. Many reading your post have never and will never visit Britain, let alone be in a NHS hospital or seek British healthcare. So you have a responsibility to make fair but uncrude characterisations.
As for your points, British doctors and nurses still have fine worldwide reputation, and Britain has in fact been at the forefront of medical advances and innovation since the NHS came to be in 1948.
1948-1970:
HIP REPLACEMENTS,
HOSPICES,
BETA BLOCKERS,
BIRTH CONTROL PILL
PORTABLE DEFIBRILLATOR
DISCOVERY OF NEUROPLASTICITY
DISPOSABLE HYPODERMIC SYRINGE
1971-1999:
CT SCANS
the MRI machine
DNA SEQUENCING
21st C:
Stem cell research
Heart cells grown from stem cells
Discovering the master switch for cancer
The Cancer Genome project
http://britsattheirbest.com/ingenious/ii_20th_century_1950_1970.htm
http://britsattheirbest.com/ingenious/ii_20th_century_1971_1999.htm
http://britsattheirbest.com/ingenious/ii_21st_century.htm
Nobody seems to understand anything but you, how odd. Oops, looks like your ass was just handed to you by a scotsman. I withdraw my demand. Oh wait, on second thought, I demand that you apologize. Then, I’ll withdraw my demand. Go ahead, apopogize.