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Originally Posted by djplong
Richie, I have trouble believing some of that.
A person with a broken arm would head to the hospital or ER to get it set.
When I was in Canada a few years ago and had a flare-up of a problem of mine that required a hospital visit, they saw me IMMEDIATELY and charged my insurance company about ONE FIFTH of what my local (Southern NH) hospitals charged and that included X-Rays, diagnostics, etc.
But to your point of some of the horror stories, why, then, do the Brits outlive us? Why are their health statistics so much better? ...the same for teh French, the Canadians, the Swiss - EVERYONE in the industrialized world - and yet we continue to pay 2-10 times what others pay for services that do not give the same results.
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If England's numbers are better I'd be willing to wager that the numbers are grossly flawed and skewed to promote this socialist agenda.
Read the documents I linked and not just the stories from neglected sick and injured. The health law in England calls for patients to be see within 18 weeks and they fail to hold to that standard at a failure rate of 26%. That means 1 out of 4 patients wait longer than 18 weeks for an appointment.
Screw everything else. That's all I need to know.