Cannot reiterate enough to Americans that under socialized medicine, if you get sick, you go to the doctor, they treat you, then you leave. Proscriptions are cheap or free. There’s no paperwork because you’re on a national database. This isn’t a pipe dream, it’s the NHS I grew up with.
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As far as I know The NHS covers all parts of the UK, including overseas territories like The Falklands. There's no area out of coverage?
Look, I'm British, and it doesn’t even make sense to me, so don't worry if it all seems like a completely bizarre arrangement. It absolutely is.
It's not great, but I'd rather everybody got half a biscuit than none at all, you know?
If you’re worried about ‘efficiency’, you’d find several many coins in the couch cushions by excising the layers of unproductive beaurocracy that is private medical insurance.
We may struggle to administer care in every situation, but we agree that it should be administered to whoever needs it.
If you add 100 orders to a restaurant, but no extra chefs to cook them, no one’s gonna eat.
A subsequent 2.5 day stay for jaundice treatment (which involves baby laying under a special light and some bloodwork) was another $50k or so.
Thank God for union insurance.
This is as close to as good as it gets in America, and largely possible because I'm in a union.
Which, in this country, is only the level of a national security issue, I guess?
Anyway I have spent the rest of my life mad at the US system
genuinely curious why nhs polls so horrendously.