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Dr. Peng Hui Lee, a Consultant Radiologist in the NHS, and author of the blog MidEssexRay, mentioned an old post of mine in his blog yesterday. The post in question, titled ‘Why does a CT scan cost so much in the USA?‘ is the one with the most comments on my blog. The comments, twenty-six as of this writing, make for  interesting reading. Definitely more interesting than my post.

I guess it pops up on a regular basis on search engines whenever someone with a huge bill for a CT scan searches the web for answers. It was even mentioned by my famous blog pal Dr. Val in her blog.

Dr. Lee has found a YouTube video of a news report about the incident that prompted the post. Watch it at the YouTube site if it doesn’t open here.

The video contains a short interview with Dr. Kevin Pho, another famous medblogger and author of the blog Kevin, MD, who regularly writes about Defensive Medicine.
Dr. Lee adds…

There has been a lot of grumbling in Britain about the “Stalinist” National Health Service (NHS), but there are worse ways to organise a country’s healthcare. I work for the NHS, and I am only too aware of its deficiencies, but those who wish to dismantle it should consider the possible consequences of alternative systems. Privatisation of the previously state-owned British railways did not lead to improved service. There is no inherent reason why a privatised national healthcare system in the UK will fare any better.