Free health care.....how does this work?!
Question: if you are a citizen of the UK and you need to go to the doctor or dentist do you just walk right in and get the work done for free? free medication? how does this effect your taxes? would you say your healthcare system is good or are there problems?
i live in the states , last year i had to remove a tooth with a pair of pliers because i was in so much pain and couldn't afford a root canal. i could have taken out a loan but i dont want to have debt. i have also lived with a chronic inflammatory condition that can be very painful for long periods of time , i have had it for 14 years with no treatment because it would cost to much for the medication on a monthly basis. i dont understand why the US doesn't have a system in place to cover health care. is there some reason why the system you have in the UK wouldn't work for the US?
Answers: if you are a citizen of the UK and you need to go to the doctor or dentist do you just walk right in and get the work done for free? free medication? how does this effect your taxes? would you say your healthcare system is good or are there problems?
i live in the states , last year i had to remove a tooth with a pair of pliers because i was in so much pain and couldn't afford a root canal. i could have taken out a loan but i dont want to have debt. i have also lived with a chronic inflammatory condition that can be very painful for long periods of time , i have had it for 14 years with no treatment because it would cost to much for the medication on a monthly basis. i dont understand why the US doesn't have a system in place to cover health care. is there some reason why the system you have in the UK wouldn't work for the US?
Oh dear!. Who told you our healthcare is free.
I am in the uk and pay every month for health care and welfare out of my salary.
Doctors and Hospitals are getting better due to complaints to the government in recent years but they still seem to struggle from one year to the next with budgets.
Dentists are a mess!. unless you can locate a national health care dentist in your area and they are as rare as hens teeth these days!, then you have to pay privately. I have just paid an enormous amount for two fillings after a routine checkup.
The problem is that healthcare in any country is very expensive and unless you are prepared to pay a large part of your salary towards it then we cannot win.
My advice to you- take out your insurance. At least it will take out a large proportion of the costs involved.
I'm from Canada, and we also have a system of fully-subsidized (read: free) healthcare. It works quite the same as the system in the United States; patients make appointments, and doctors perform surgeries and other operations. Most operations are covered, while others (such as those which are not needed, non-required plastic surgery, for example) are not. There are two issues with free and public healthcare. The first is cost; known to be massive with respect to Government spending and taxation. The second is the quality of service - regularly, when opening up a system which will bring in little to no revenue, quality must be scarified for quantity of operations. Thus, though health care in Canada is free - wait times are rather high. Essentially, the issue of one of finding the proper balance.
Dr. James Jeah MD
Our 'free' healthcare is paid for via our taxes, and the monthly cost of this is roughly the same as you guys pay for health insurance. However, the Dentist is only subsidised by the NHS, so everytime we go we have to pay. Plus, if you work and require a prescription, you have to pay for that as well.