This guy gets it. Penicillin, the Polio vaccine and anesthesia are for suckers!
There is always bleach and horse wormer for Covid.
Joking aside, my friends in the UK complain about taxes and fuel prices but i haven’t heard complaints about healthcare… but I haven’t asked either. I have a friend that is an Air Force contractor. He just got back from a job in England where he experienced major allergy problems. He had very nice things to say about the treatment he received. One of his comments was, “…and you don’t go bankrupt if you get sick there.”
A few years ago another friend in Hull was struck by a car riding his bike (to save on filling his petrol tank in his Jag) breaking an arm. He said nothing about his treatment for that. Although he described the person that hit him as an “ignorant sow.”
Also, I know of some pretty horrible experiences in US hospitals and US healthcare in general. There are a lot of attorneys making a fortune off of poor care. For example, my Dad went in for heart surgery, they damaged his epiglottis intubating him, the respiratory therapist that then had to give him treatments spread staph to multiple patients (I noticed and complained about how she wasn’t using full universal precautions a few days before), and a few months later he died from the staph infection after being transferred to another hospital when he shouldn’t have.
My best friend‘s Dad died after a sponge was left in his abdomen after what otherwise should have been a minor surgery with quick recovery. A coworker’s Mom was prescribed a medication that had an established link to cancer and specifically was only to be prescribed for short terms. The doctor had her on it for two years before she was diagnosed with the very specific cancer it is linked. I recently had a CT scan done at a regional hospital. I have Blue Cross / Blue Shield insurance with 20% coinsurance and a $2500 deductible. My share of the $10,000 bill was $5000. Now, I can’t really complain about my cost share as that is the plan I signed up for. But, $10,000 for a 15 minute CT scan? I’m not entirely sure the US healthcare system is the best considering what we pay and how we rank in the world as far as overall health. But, I can’t argue a lot of that is dietary and lifestyle choices typical of the average American. I also have a friend who is a nurse that visited Egypt and had a health emergency that required a several day stay in the hospital. Her out of pocket cost was just over $900 and she didn’t have travel health insurance. She had rave reviews about the care she received and has now moved there permanently. I won’t go without health insurance, regardless, because I don’t want to bankrupt my family if something unexpected happens.
Informed perspective on just about everything, including fuel prices and healthcare, is everything.
I apologize for jumping on the off topic bandwagon.
