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    if anything that demonstrates the issue with government health care: inefficiency, bureaucracy, and incompetence... Commented Jul 9, 2019 at 17:06
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    @ThomasThomas: It demonstrates no such thing as its anecdotal evidence; what your comment does demonstrate, however, is your prejudice against government legislated healthcare. Commented Jul 9, 2019 at 19:19
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    @ThomasThomas The case cited above isn't an issue of government incompetence or bureaucracy: the system was working perfectly as intended to deny coverage to a person who could not prove his immigration status. Commented Jul 9, 2019 at 19:30
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    @divbisan heaps of impenetrable paperwork are a hallmark of government-administered programs (healthcare included, as this anecdote reveals) Commented Jul 9, 2019 at 20:55
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    @Agustus Actually that is not normally the case in the UK. Here you sign up with a local GP, show them evidence of ID, and from then on the only paperwork is drug prescriptions and letters telling you about hospital appointments. The missing paperwork in this case was immigration paperwork. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal. If heaps of impenetrable paperwork are an argument for the abolition of government programs then its immigration laws that should be the target. Commented Jul 10, 2019 at 7:48