Rush: The people of Great Britain don’t like the National Health Service

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yes.

Wile-E-Coyote is more credible than he is.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yeah I don't doubt that those of you who say you prefer NHS are sincere.

The only sense in which the private system is preferable is if you're fantastically wealthy, yet people on middle and low incomes seem to believe that rather than arguing for a better, fairer system that the goal should be to become equally wealthy so that they can afford it (even if they lack the education or business acumen to do it). It's either that or the debate isn't being driven by the people in real need of health reform.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I am happy with my HMO. We have very limited out of pocket each year, and because it is through my wife's work, it is very affordable compared to a personal plan for somebody my age.

[rocks 494]

Remember that this includes dental insurance too. Is everyone happy with their dental insurance?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I am happy with my HMO. We have very limited out of pocket each year, and because it is through my wife's work, it is very affordable compared to a personal plan for somebody my age.

So if anything happened to your wife you'd be pretty much buggered?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

So if anything happened to your wife you'd be pretty much buggered?

Exactly, or I go on the dole like everybody else. Nine more years before I get that free medical care I was promised.

[^_^ 5,021]

Exactly, or I go on the dole like everybody else. Nine more years before I get that free medical care I was promised.

Well, if your wife passed away suddenly you'd have COBRA for 36 months. I am sure you could afford it. Then you'd have to be on the individual market for six years. You're in California so you'd qualify for the new Medicaid expansion or subsidies from the Exchange. You'd be ok.

Just don't move to Arizona or Texas.

Edited July 31, 2012 by Habitual Offender

[rocks 494]

Well, if your wife passed away suddenly you'd have COBRA for 36 months. I am sure you could afford it. Then you'd have to be on the individual market for six years. You're in California so you'd qualify for the new Medicaid expansion or subsidies from the Exchange. You'd be ok.

Just don't move to Arizona or Texas.

Or Mississippi. Before you make fun, my neighbor is from California, she prefers it here. She's weird.

[Glyn and Kathy 288]

Exactly, or I go on the dole like everybody else. Nine more years before I get that free medical care I was promised.

Are you talking about Medicare??? Its not free...sorry.

[Darnell 8,479]

As an American living in the UK, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the NHS. I've been covered from the day I moved here as has my daughter. I pay for nothing but my prescriptions and as I buy a prepayment certificate....I pay £10.40 a month for ALL of my prescriptions as does hubby. Normally they are just under £8.00 a script. I don't pay anything for my birth control and daughters scripts are free. Her eye exams and glasses are free, her dental exams are free. Hubby's eye exams are free as he is over 40 and has a parent with Glaucoma. I have never had to wait for an appointment and my GP sent me straight in for a rheumatology appointment for my arthritis. When I was here last time, I had a growth over my eye that looked like skin cancer...I was seen and had it removed within a week. Hubby pays a total of just under £400.00 a month in taxes. Compared to our taxes, medical insurance, and medical BILLS (with insurance) we are far better off here!!!!

Say what you will about the NHS, I like knowing that an unexpected hospitalization won't cost us thousands and thousands of dollars!

+40 points if you call into Rush's show and get airtime.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

+40 points if you call into Rush's show and get airtime.

Hard to get past the call screener. Rush doesn't even like guests to question his wisdom, so he doesn't usually have any.

ETA: Wisdom, or guests.

Edited July 31, 2012 by The Patriot

[james&olya 1,121]

Families between poverty level and 133% of poverty level won't be eligible for subsidies from the exchanges. They ARE eligible for the newly expanded Medicaid, but if the state they lives in opts out of that they're SOL.

The state with the most uninsured (TX) has already said they're opting out.

That is their reward for electing republicans. Elections do matter. Maybe this will convince some folks of that and maybe they will educate themselves about the candidates and vote for the ones who actually have policies they agree with on the issues that actually matter.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year

over 6% of hospital patients in England still acquire some form of infection during their stay, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).

How does that compare to the two million a year infected in US hospitals?

[Darnell 8,479]

How does that compare to the two million a year infected in US hospitals?

Man, ain't that the truth! I wish they'd change the sanitation procedure, whoever 'they' are.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

How does that compare to the two million a year infected in US hospitals?

Half as much as Britain with one fifth the population.

Edited August 1, 2012 by The Patriot