- 13 Nov 14, 09:10#425338
I guess we shouldn't be complaining about our £8.00 prescription costs ( free if you live in Scotland which pisses the English and Welsh off). And free for kids and people on benefits. Everything else is free. Hospital visits, doctor visits, surgery. There is the private option available which doesn't always mean you get better care but you get dealt with faster and hotel conditions in the hospital. Dentists aren't free. Some drugs, the very , very expensive ones aren't always prescribed, the local health trust have an allotted amount of money and have to make decisions on how it's spent. It does mean care and drugs available vary from area to area. Trust have to weigh up things like, prescribe this drug for this one person or do ten by pass operations. That sort f thing.
The NHS is under strain in the UK , partly because of unrestricted immigration. Generally the Uk population aren't against immigration, it's the scale of it. The scale of it and benefit Britain, which is a bug bear of mine but I won't go into that now.
Back to the States. It sounds quite scary that you have to pay so much for health care. Some people must just not be able to pay that amount.
In the UK certain health care has to be offered even to foreign nationals on holiday or visiting relatives free. No questions asked. And that is any emergency treatment and anything to do with childbirth. Front line health care , there may be other things in that category. government then try to claim back from the persons home country, but in reality they rarely get the money back.
The NHS is under strain in the UK , partly because of unrestricted immigration. Generally the Uk population aren't against immigration, it's the scale of it. The scale of it and benefit Britain, which is a bug bear of mine but I won't go into that now.
Back to the States. It sounds quite scary that you have to pay so much for health care. Some people must just not be able to pay that amount.
In the UK certain health care has to be offered even to foreign nationals on holiday or visiting relatives free. No questions asked. And that is any emergency treatment and anything to do with childbirth. Front line health care , there may be other things in that category. government then try to claim back from the persons home country, but in reality they rarely get the money back.
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Abe Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abe Lincoln