# USA really too different from English-speaking world to have similar policies? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 27, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-really-too-different-from-english-speaking-world-to-have-similar-policies/483193 "2009-01-27T06:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 368
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-really-too-different-from-english-speaking-world-to-have-similar-policies/483193/368 "2009-02-05T23:10:49Z")
This is from another thread, but fits here. > [@Please define Socialized Medicine for me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-define-socialized-medicine-for-me/483169/25): > > I have talked to serveral people who have lived in the UK, Aussie and NZ and they all agree, in terms of most things the socialized medicine is better there for all routine things. Office visits, routine surgery, drugs. But when it comes to complex things like transplants, advanced cancer or surgeries, the United States totally comes out ahead. > > So I think it’d be a matter of pluses and minuses depending on where you stand on your overall health If, as some here claim, the benefits of UHC might not translate to the USA, isn’t it just as reasonable to argue that the advantages in top-end care are not due to the lack of socialized medicine? If we’re being sloppy to claim that UHC works in other countries & would therefore work here, then isn’t it even more sloppy to claim that private medicine causes better transplant care? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-really-too-different-from-english-speaking-world-to-have-similar-policies/483193)._