Standard of living higher in UK than in the U.S.

After having spent time in UK and US. I would choose UK anytime for having better living standards.

Tejvam
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Forced to leave the U.S. by the outlaw branded American based Unum Corporation and its infamous brand of "insurance" deceit.

Back home now in the U.K. very sadly it appears the expert deceivers at Unum have misled some in British Government into adopting an American style SICKO "wealth-care" system here.

A very sad and disturbing state of affairs indeed.
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Rubbish. By 'Britain,' one assumes that you're including England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the formula and there's plenty of deep-rooted poverty in all of these areas. The premise that health insurance costs are singled out for differentiation and as a basis to support the proposition hides the fact{s} of the matter. Great Britain has a sales tax [VAT] approaching 20% - that's in addition to income taxes, property taxes, transfer taxes, etc. Also, since National Health Care - what you call 'free health care,' is poorly run and poorly funded, those with the means buy private insurance [on top of paying for the National Health plan, which they don't use] and they use private hospitals. Furthermore, the lower strata of the economic tables and the middle-class {of which there is now such a thing thanks in no small part to Margaret Thatcher's economic reforms of 1979 and the 1980's} has a significant amount of their children's university education fees paid for by the government; and we all know where government gets its money - taxes {somebody else's money}. While the rank and file of Great Britain have benefited from the redistribution of wealth {the estate taxes in England are confiscatory}, the dispairity between haves and have nots is still demonstrative. A social system based on wealth redistribution can only function for so long. Once the affluent have been taxed {either reducing their wealth to where they fall under the taxman's radar, or, when they flee to less confiscatory venues}, the return to a downward spiral of declining standards of living is inevitable. Sadly, the American trend has been to raise taxes - effectively, on the middle class {what's left of it} and to pass tax savings onto the wealthiest among us. The middle class in America drives the economy, not the few who have benefited by the GOP's economic policies of pillage and plunder. One final point, few Britains can afford to buy a home in their capital, as London's more expensive than New York and few wage earners, as opposed to professionals and/or bankers can afford such prices. The 'study' upon which your blogg depends is highly suspect!