Originally Posted by F-U-Jimmy

While im on my soap box lets clear up a few misconceptions about UK health care, It isn't free, never has been. We pay National Insurance which to a large extent goes to subsidize health care, now while our doctors and nurses are great, there are not enough of them so things take time sometimes too much time and people die. My National insurance contribution 15 years ago was £689.00 a month or about $1000. I would imagine that has doubled by now, yet health care is still slow in the UK.

Now people pay $600-$1200 month in the USA and health care here is slowing down considerably. Here's an example a very good friend of mine in San Diego has been ill for sometime, he went to the Dr a number of times they could not find anything wrong with him. He is 47 and weights a whopping 150 lb. Over the last two weeks he dropped 30 lb. and all of a sudden the Dr.'s took notice, they found after a number of tests that he has multiple cancers in his liver spine and kidneys and will probably not last very long, had they found these earlier he may have had a chance. The point im trying to make is no matter where you live there are pros and cons to healthcare. It's a very complex issue and there is no simple answer. Nothing is free in life , someone has to pay for it and it sure as hell isn't going to be the Pharmaceutical companies.


Sorry for the rant