Blink 182's Mark Hoppus has expressed his support for the UK's National Health Service, and has advocated the USA adopting a similar system. In a recent interview with BBC Radio Five Live Hoppus detailed his admiration for the NHS, since moving to London in August of 2011.
"We've been living here since August, and we've had a few occasions to go to the NHS, and it is a far superior experience here than it is dealing with the bureaucracy of medicine in the United States. (…) Granted we've only had minor, y'know, colds or scrapes, or stuff like that; we haven't had any kind of, like, an operation, or anything that's needed hospitalization…
But, just as far as going into the local surgery, you can walk right in, they see you right away… The waiting times here, that I've experienced at the local clinics in the UK, have been far shorter than the waiting times in the United States. The service has been great. The integration of your health records online… cause we've gone to a couple places in London, and then we were out in Bath one time, and had to go to this small hospital outside of Bath, and they had our entire medical history on file there. It's worked really well for us.
We've been commenting to our friends that the US needs to look over here, and take some cues from what you guys are doing over here."
You can find the full interview here, where Hoppus also outlines his recent visit to the Houses of Parliament, and his impressions of Prime Minister David Cameron; leader of the Conservative Party, and Ed Miliband; Labour leader, and Leader of the Opposition.
Blink 182 released their most recent full length, Neighborhoods, in 2011.