President O' and the NHS

Michael, in full agreement with you too!

too bad all the military/spouses that have been stationed over there, along with the LARGE expat population we have there don't have more to say about this issue......

John---perhaps it was Wales you were thinking of about free prescription as written about recently here, with Scotland phasing them out.....and there's several classes of people exempt from them in England as well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7925167.stm

A young friend of mine in Missouri in 2006 developed cancer for the second time and trying out a new drug, the tablets he took were $10,000 each.  And---correct me if i'm wrong---I read awhile back that health costs were the largest cause of bankruptcy in the US. And did those $10,000 tablets do the trick? Nope---he died just aged 24. I'd helped the family a lot with their fundraising to help pay their bills for their son. Here's his obituary on the website his Mum made after a couple of years using the one I'd set up for them.

http://www.markdewalle.com/id22.html

i did mention recently that my 27 years old fell down some steps last christmas and did a 'superman' and broke her neck. thankfully she wasnt paralised but the hospital specialists said had any fragment of bone moved in any deriction she would not have sustained life. Thankfully after 6 months wearing an 'halo' support, bolted into her skull she made a full recovery and has recently gone back to work.

The point I am making is from the time she was put onto the 'hard' strecture by the paramedics, transfered to two hospitals, all the treatment and all the 'aftercare' it hasnt cost us  a penny, even her food was free whilst in hospital.

THAT IS OUR NHS for you and it was all done with the highest possible care and attention the BRITISH NHS, take a bow!

Michael,  I certainly hope so!  She has a "English" birth certificate, but unfortunately she now has a Baltimore accent, which is one of it's own here.  

BTW, love the picture of the car.  I brought back a 1978 MGB bought from neighbor in Crantock, who happens to have 3 of them.  Bernard is always going to MG shows during the summer.  I unfortunately had to sell mine, but it was great fun while I had it.  

I've always wondered WHY we (the US) couldn't (and didn't) have a National Health system like the UK.  And, when it's been talked about in campaigns, that's what I have assumed they meant, but apparently it's not.  There seems to be so many questions and other issues involved (and I admit that I don't fully understand, which is sad to say by someone who works in health care, isn't it??)

I do know that what we have, isn't working well at all.  We have generations of people, who live on welfare and have medical cards, who have never paid a penny for their medical care or prescriptions, and have never paid any taxes (and who tell us at the hospital--Oh it's OK, go ahead and order it, I don't have to pay for it--well, I'm paying for it, honey!)  Now, I know lots of others who try their hardest, and get the best jobs they can, and still need a medical card, and that's a whole different story, no problem.

But, there are so many of us, even nurses, who pay outlandish insurance premiums (about $65 every two weeks, just for me, my husband carries for our children at another $40) and we have $500 yearly deductibles, and still pay 20% of the rest of it,  and I think we pay $20 per prescription....needless to say, we don't go to a doctor unless we're half dead!  This is all because the big insurance companies AND the pharmaceutical companies are running the whole show, and they have congress in their pockets, and have had for many, many years.

sorry, I should just get off that soap box!  I don't really know what the perfect solution is...

I should just move to England, that's it!!!