I recently had a stroke. I was transported to hospital in 10 minutes, I was triaged by two doctors immediately. I had a CT Scan and an MRI within an hour. I was kept in overnight in a private room. This cost me £0. My medication costs me £10 a month. Yeah the NHS is broken.
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Amazing. So glad you got the care you needed and I hope you are recovering well.
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Yes I’m great thanks. I’ve also been back to hospital to have an ultrasound on my neck and given a portable ecg machine for 24 hours. The NHS faces a lot of challenges, but I’ve never been able to fault the care I’ve received.
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Now, you’re just bragging (just kidding). That’s wonderful. I have friends in Sweden and they are very happy with their healthcare. The headaches with billing, insurance, costs, etc here in US is at tipping point. We need a remedy STAT.
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It’s not perfect, nobody is pretending that, but I get sick of people in the US slagging it off.
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Life expectancy, UK vs. US:
male: 79.4;
male: 76.9
female: 83.0;
female: 81.6
Healthcare spending (OECD):
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Indeed. So no one is uninsured
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I have type 1 diabetes. My insulin cost $25/vial in 1998. Today the EXACT same insulin costs about $350/vial. Our system is broken and we are subsidizing Europe’s system.
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It is under financed by a crap Government. Trump is an idiot. NHS is much loved in UK. Government is not.
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And the NHS is not for sale to the US either
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So the Affordable Care Act is the best hybrid of private and public funding to maximize coverage? That's my take away. What is Trump's problem with it again?
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One payer systems sound great until you are on the receiving end and realize they.meter out health care at a very slow pace hoping many will either die or give up before getting treated...... and let the rich folks buy their way around the system with supplemental plans
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Long waits suck. Dying because you can't afford medical care sucks more. I'll take NHS over American healthcare any day.
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The NHS is under a lot of pressure from an aging population, health tourism and idiots going to hospital when they don’t need to. I also believe it is being deliberately sabotaged to allow US companies to privatise the NHS.
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