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From all of the threads that have been posted on FR about the SCOTUS decision in regards to ObamaCare no one has asked on the quality of the medical care we can expect to receive. Steve Crowder did an expose on the Canadian healthcare system that will give Americans a pretty good idea of what to expect at the link above. But we can also look to the UK NHS (National Health Service) and their quality of medical care care given to those in jolly old England. Please post your favorite NHS nightmare story here.

British critics of the National Health Service say they are shocked to be featuring prominently in US television ads attacking President Barack Obama's health reforms. A lobby group that supports the current free market in US health care is spending $20 million trying to derail Mr Obama's reforms - the centrepiece of his domestic programme - by broadcasting "horror stories" on television. The advertisements include British and Canadian patients, who suffered long waits for operations in their home countries, were denied drugs they needed, or had to travel to the US for treatment. The three Britons featured in separate television...

A West Midlands hospital is to become the first in the UK to be run by a private company. The final two bidders for the contract to manage Good Hope Hospital, in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, are both private companies. Management of the hospital was put out to franchise after it dropped from a three-star rating to no stars at all. Since then more than £20m of public investment has been pledged, but the final two bidders to provide a new chief executive for the hospital are from private companies. Worrying move One of the bidders, Secta, has a £9m stake...