Medicare-For-All - Britain Sounds Alarm Over Historic Waiting Lists

[Mark1T]

Don't worry bro. After free healthcare, free housing will be next.

Thanks, man. I'll have to compare with my box I just got, tho. It was my neighbor's washing machine box and boy is it nice. I might paint it.

[knightofday]

Your issue is your drug companies and med centred charging exorbitant fees. Your insurance companies screwing you over and over

And you seem to support it cos you’re worried about paying an extra $50 in tax and having some limitations placed on profits

Unfathomable

Crazy to me how you brush off your wait times haha, "I can do this an this and this and only have to wait 8 months for final treatment lol at you"

Fuk off with that chit, our system has problems but I cant fathom suffering on a wait list until my govt gives me the go ahead to be treated, absolutely un-American imo.

And $50? I fuking wish, we'd sign up tomorrow. Social healthcare will cost regular taxpayers like me THOUSANDS more per year through taxes, and the care will take much longer and be dogchit at that. I think you Europeans fail to remember that we have a "social healthcare system" already and its pure dogchit. They cant handle less than ten million, hundreds of millions plus dozens of millions of illegals would destroy us 100%

[ThisIsSceaming]

Ask the 44 million uninsured Americans how long they're waiting for surgery.

Lol no one in the UK is asking for a healthcare system similar to America's.

[StarFox]

Once you wait for whatever predetermined amount of time, at least you can get your treatment for free!


Unless of course the NHS deems you to be racist, sexist or bigoted in which case you can fukk off and die

https://summit.news/2019/11/05/uk-na...s-and-sexists/

[Mark1T]

Once you wait for whatever predetermined amount of time, at least you can get your treatment for free!


Unless of course the NHS deems you to be racist, sexist or bigoted in which case you can fukk off and die

https://summit.news/2019/11/05/uk-na...s-and-sexists/

Good find. That is shocking. They are making it too easy to deny citizens healthcare.

That is what socialism evolves in to. Nothing good.

[Chowboy]

Unfortunately I've had to spend a lot of money on health issues over the last year but one thing I remind myself is even though I've spent a lot of money (thousands of dollars) is if I make a phone call, within a few days I get whatever is needed- MRIs, CT scan, X-ray, endoscopy.....whatever. I would rather pay money and get treated than get it for free and have to wait.

This times a million. I was given 2-3 months to live. Many CTs, bags of poison, weeks of radiation and I'm still alive and recovering nicely 8 months later. Out of pocket expenses: $6K.


A govt death panel would have deemed me an unnecessary expense. Fuk them and all of you retards who want a corrupt and politicized bureaucracy determining your health reqt's.

[dakensta]

It's weird. The more the current conservative government has turned the NHS into a for-profit organisation —funded by taxpayers— while cutting the number of nurses and doctors, and doing away with free training for nurses, the more it costs the UK, while giving worse service, with fewer doctor and nurses. What gives?!!? Socialism is obviously to blame. FFS.

[Dave22reborn]

Cool story bro

Let's give the government 60% of our income, 25% sales tax and pay $10 for gas so we can have system that's so chitty that we need to buy additonal insurance with our already-taxed income

There ya go again with your numbers, don't you care about those people going bankrupt? Even though it seems to be a number they're pulling out of their ass.

[Dave22reborn]

I can't wait until I can't afford my home and go homeless. But, at least I'll have healthcare for free and if I have to wait 6 months for my lung transplant, I'll be ok in my box to live in, in front of the grocery store.

They won't mention it, but so many people rent in these Socialist Utopias....I wonder why they're not owning any kind of property? You know, something they can maybe leave their children?

[Dave22reborn]

It's weird. The more the current conservative government has turned the NHS into a for-profit organisation —funded by taxpayers— while cutting the number of nurses and doctors, and doing away with free training for nurses, the more it costs the UK, while giving worse service, with fewer doctor and nurses. What gives?!!? Socialism is obviously to blame. FFS.

Conservatives in Western Europe have a different meaning, they're more like moderate Democrats.

Hell, explain what makes Merkel a supposed conservative?

[ButWhoWasNoodz]

Ask the 44 million uninsured Americans how long they're waiting for surgery.

Lol no one in the UK is asking for a healthcare system similar to America's.

Aside from the people on this very forum from the UK saying they hate the UK's system.
Nice try, though.

[anonymous]

They won't mention it, but so many people rent in these Socialist Utopias....I wonder why they're not owning any kind of property? You know, something they can maybe leave their children?

You didn't build that!

[ButWhoWasNoodz]

Ask the 44 million uninsured Americans how long they're waiting for surgery.

Lol no one in the UK is asking for a healthcare system similar to America's.

Aside from the people on this very forum from the UK saying they hate the UK's system.
Nice try, though.

Plus, there was a story in the news several weeks ago of a British (hint: UK) family flying to the US (Boston, I think) to get their kid lifesaving care not available in the UK. Guess that was fake news because everyone loves the great UK healthcare. So their kid should have died in the UK?
Why is said treatment only available in the US?
Why is nobody flying to the UK for life-saving treatment not available in the US?

[isingmodel]

They won't mention it, but so many people rent in these Socialist Utopias....I wonder why they're not owning any kind of property? You know, something they can maybe leave their children?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ownership_rate

The US isn't even in the top 40. Sweden, Canada, France, Finland, Belgium etc are all ahead of it.

Let me know if you need help reading the numbers on that table BTW.

[StoliFun]

Aside from the people on this very forum from the UK saying they hate the UK's system.
Nice try, though.

Plus, there was a story in the news several weeks ago of a British (hint: UK) family flying to the US (Boston, I think) to get their kid lifesaving care not available in the UK. Guess that was fake news because everyone loves the great UK healthcare. So their kid should have died in the UK?

There are extraordinary anecdotals in every system. Glad that kid got treated. Sorry it was in Boston.

[Mark1T]

They won't mention it, but so many people rent in these Socialist Utopias....I wonder why they're not owning any kind of property? You know, something they can maybe leave their children?

They give up their livelihoods and lifestyles to pay for social programs that are mediocre at best. They are on the verge of bankruptcy and their governments are on the verge of or in recession.

The democrats here want everyone to be average.

[Holyfenix]

Yeah it’s not perfect

However you can pay $300 to see a consultant who then refers tests to GP eg bloods etc which are free

Or you wait

And if it’s urgent you get bumped up the list.

And it doesn’t screw your credit or make you bankrupt if someone you love gets an illness or in an accident

And our diabetics don’t die for want of insulin

And an ambulance ride is free not thousands of dollars

All meds cost prescription fees ..it’s like $15 for 3 months

You cannot in any good conscience support the chitshow that is the American medical system

I currently have a bit of med issue, my primary care has seen me 4 times, I’ve had 3 sets of blood tests and an MRI within 3 months ...cost is 0

Oh and we have private healthcare too just haven’t used it since my last sports injury for physio therapy (which I could also have got on NHS but chose not to wait)

Imagine paying 40% more in taxes and thinking your healthcare cost is 0.
Converting everything to USD and assuming the same us median wage the Brit will pay about 4000 more in what are essentially federal taxes each year.

For me and my daughter insurance is going to cost me 3 grand a year. It would have been about 1000 for just me. Guess what no wait list. Get seen within a week for a general check up. prescription drugs cost less than they cost you.
In reality the brits median income is actually 15k lower than the US AND they have sales and VAT tax too.

Got dam brits are fuking morons thinking they are getting a good deal. Poor dumb bastards.

[Firefightn24]

You can pay for a Coke, and it's great. Or someone can give you a free cup of piss... and you should thank them only because it's free?

[Lastro]

the extent to which universal healthcare advocates itt downplay the cost of taxes is mind-blowing. the average canadian pays almost 7 grand per year in taxes on healthcare to not be able to get urgent care from a specialist or a surgeon when it is needed, or to wait 12 hours in the emergency room.

in most cases, some americans go bankrupt due to healthcare costs because they are not disciplined enough to set money aside for healthcare costs. if they were setting aside what the average canadian is paying in taxes for universal healthcare, nobody would even be talking about this problem. there are exceptions, but government assistance (taxpayer dollars) should be reserved for those cases, not to the average M-O-R-O-N who doesn't know how to handle money. choices have consequences. freedom has a cost

universal healthcare is only getting worse with time. we'll see what its advocates say when their system collapses in on itself, leaving them with no choice but to go to the private sector to get the care they need (and pay for that on top of their taxes).

my dad is nearing 70 and has been paying thousands to circumvent public healthcare to get what he needs in a timely manner. had he not, he would have suffered. he was a big fan of universal healthcare.... until he actually needed healthcare services

[katya422]

LOL at waiting 4 months for a CT scan in Europe when I can literally go get one in 30 minutes here. Yeah may be a couple hundred bucks so fukking what. With decent, and I just mean decent, healthcare plans its not even that. My wife broke her finger (bad) last year and had multiple MRIs, X-rays, Ct scans, saw the specialist 3 or 4 times, etc....she has an accident plan on her insurance and we were out of pocket $185 for the entire thing. I think that is something that Europeans who criticize US healthcare don't understand, is most of us with employer plans don't have any problems with healthcare whatsoever. Sure the insurance is expensive but so are more taxes.

Mine is paid for by work, my wife is self employed and her plan is $260/month but its tax deductible so we get a third of it back. She has excellent coverage and benefits for that as described in the post you quoted.

For my insurance my employer probably pays about the same amount.

Curious how many of you that are happy with your employer sponsored coverage have actually checked in with your HR department and asked them how much your employer contributes toward your coverage. Add that number to whatever you pay monthly. Then if you have a deductible add that.

That is how much you actually pay before you receive any healthcare at the expense of your health insurer.

My ex's employer disclosed that they kicked in $10K for family coverage. That is money that theoretically could have been salary if it wasn't paying for health insurance. Then my ex had $329 a month deducted from his check. Then we each had an individual $500 deductible that we had to meet before insurance paid a dime. So our cost would be between $14,448 and $15,448 before the health insurance company lost any money.

15 years ago I was having $800 a month deducted from my monthly check for family coverage health insurance while working for a hospital chain. At the time this was more than our mortgage.

Respectfully, the costs are way much more than that. The unreal costs of over $50 Trillion, the logistics of over 300 million people including illegal aliens would break the back of the US economy in addition to the 2 million jobs lost in private healthcare. Medicare for All is already losing its appeal in the polls and among college students who are finally seeing the light. Warren is claiming that Medicare for All will be fully paid for by the richest 1%. Not true and is it ridiculous.

Boom

Yes, that is some steaming BS and I can't believe anyone buys it.

Alarmists? Like in OP? We can all be equally blinkered it seems

And if you developed a chronic illness or had an accident and could no longer work?

Seriously interested in how these things could affect the average American

It is pretty bleak. So-called cash welfare is very limited in both the amount and the maximum length of time to receive benefits.

Then we have disability programs set up by the state and government that would cover me that I've been contributing to my whole life through taxes.

You don't know this?

Disability can take years to get. And then it is quite meager and wouldn't be enough for most people to live independently. Might be able to stay with family or rent a room in a multiple room mate situation.

if everybody in america took active efforts to better their health we wouldnt need universal health care to begin with. so taxing me more to pay for their bad dietary/lifestyle habits while i try to live somewhat healthy is ridiculous and basically punishing those that do the right thing so you can reward others for their bad decisions.

Yes, because of course if everyone just had good health habits there would be no diseases or accidents or genetic disorders. We will all live in glowing good health hallelujah hallelujah.

Crazy to me how you brush off your wait times haha, "I can do this an this and this and only have to wait 8 months for final treatment lol at you"

Fuk off with that chit, our system has problems but I cant fathom suffering on a wait list until my govt gives me the go ahead to be treated, absolutely un-American imo.

And $50? I fuking wish, we'd sign up tomorrow. Social healthcare will cost regular taxpayers like me THOUSANDS more per year through taxes, and the care will take much longer and be dogchit at that. I think you Europeans fail to remember that we have a "social healthcare system" already and its pure dogchit. They cant handle less than ten million, hundreds of millions plus dozens of millions of illegals would destroy us 100%

Have you considered that it might be dogchit at least partly because most people don't have to use it and so don't want to fund it?

Ask the 44 million uninsured Americans how long they're waiting for surgery.

Lol no one in the UK is asking for a healthcare system similar to America's.

Even insured people often have to wait for procedures. Rarely as long as mentioned in the article. Still not unusual to call to make an appointment and be told there is nothing for 2-4 months open.

I don't have health insurance right now. Not the first time for me. One thing about Texas- ton of uninsured people.

So I am having to pay OOP and for the maintenance of two generic prescriptions, one trip to the dentist, and just recently labs to test for anemia due to symptoms, I have spent $2,300.

I had pretty bad chest pain a few weeks ago on a Saturday night. No one to take me to an urgent care, plus from previous experience I know they would send me to an ER. Can't afford it. So I just dealt with it and decided if I die then I just die.

Went to a GP on Monday. Was told it was too long for a blood test to show anything, but she wanted to do an EKG to see if there was anything ongoing. Did that.

Tried to find out how much it would cost to get my labs done for anemia. Multiple calls and got nowhere. Last week I just went online to a direct lab site. I feel pretty crap and my chest hurts...not intense all the time but achy. Got my results- ferritin 5 hemoglobin 8.

I don't absorb iron pills and in the past I have had iron IV infusions. They are expensive. Trying to find out how expensive and in the meantime started a liquid iron today.

Oh, and, yeah, you can have a heart attack from anemia if it is too bad.

[NitrogenWidget]

Aside from the people on this very forum from the UK saying they hate the UK's system.
Nice try, though.

Plus, there was a story in the news several weeks ago of a British (hint: UK) family flying to the US (Boston, I think) to get their kid lifesaving care not available in the UK. Guess that was fake news because everyone loves the great UK healthcare. So their kid should have died in the UK?
Why is said treatment only available in the US?
Why is nobody flying to the UK for life-saving treatment not available in the US?

I live by the border.
I work with Canadians who come to the U.S. for surgery.
which is weird cause it's like free up there.
right?

[NitrogenWidget]

the extent to which universal healthcare advocates itt downplay the cost of taxes is mind-blowing. the average canadian pays almost 7 grand per year in taxes on healthcare to not be able to get urgent care from a specialist or a surgeon when it is needed, or to wait 12 hours in the emergency room.

in most cases, some americans go bankrupt due to healthcare costs because they are not disciplined enough to set money aside for healthcare costs. if they were setting aside what the average canadian is paying in taxes for universal healthcare, nobody would even be talking about this problem. there are exceptions, but government assistance (taxpayer dollars) should be reserved for those cases, not to the average M-O-R-O-N who doesn't know how to handle money. choices have consequences. freedom has a cost

universal healthcare is only getting worse with time. we'll see what its advocates say when their system collapses in on itself, leaving them with no choice but to go to the private sector to get the care they need (and pay for that on top of their taxes).

my dad is nearing 70 and has been paying thousands to circumvent public healthcare to get what he needs in a timely manner. had he not, he would have suffered. he was a big fan of universal healthcare.... until he actually needed healthcare services

yup.
I have an HSA.
I pump it to the max allowed yearly. just over 5k.
I have me and my two kids on it and the last broken arm was literally 3k so I take it seriously.
I know people who cut down their contribution when it hits the deductible.
I don't do that. FYI I hit my 3k deductible last month just for my kids. I went to the dr once for pneumonia and that cost me like $250 total.
pediatricians gotta be ballin'.

I got many yrs of dr's bill between me and my kids and i'm going to give myself as big a cushion as possible.
Also while i'm a long way from retirement, how does not building it up now make any sense?
It's basically a retirement fund.

[Dave22reborn]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ownership_rate

The US isn't even in the top 40. Sweden, Canada, France, Finland, Belgium etc are all ahead of it.

Let me know if you need help reading the numbers on that table BTW.

Can blame millenials for that ****.

When people have the handout mentality, they tend to still live at home till they're 30, while blaming everyone and everything else accept themselves.

[ThisIsSceaming]

Aside from the people on this very forum from the UK saying they hate the UK's system.
Nice try, though.

Plus, there was a story in the news several weeks ago of a British (hint: UK) family flying to the US (Boston, I think) to get their kid lifesaving care not available in the UK. Guess that was fake news because everyone loves the great UK healthcare. So their kid should have died in the UK?
Why is said treatment only available in the US?
Why is nobody flying to the UK for life-saving treatment not available in the US?

Strong reading comprehension. They may have gripes with their health coverage, as every system has flaws, but no one is advocating that they swap to a system similar to the U.S., where they rely on the generosity of their employer to provide decent health insurance

Nice anecdote.

[isingmodel]

Can blame millenials for that ****.

When people have the handout mentality, they tend to still live at home till they're 30, while blaming everyone and everything else accept themselves.

So you were wrong...like always?

[ImBunky]

Curious how many of you that are happy with your employer sponsored coverage have actually checked in with your HR department and asked them how much your employer contributes toward your coverage. Add that number to whatever you pay monthly. Then if you have a deductible add that.

That is how much you actually pay before you receive any healthcare at the expense of your health insurer.

My ex's employer disclosed that they kicked in $10K for family coverage. That is money that theoretically could have been salary if it wasn't paying for health insurance. Then my ex had $329 a month deducted from his check. Then we each had an individual $500 deductible that we had to meet before insurance paid a dime. So our cost would be between $14,448 and $15,448 before the health insurance company lost any money.

How likely do you think it is that employers are going to bump your salary $10K if we go to UHC?

When I changed jobs about 5 years ago I was paying $550/mo for basically the same coverage that I have now, but as a contractor I was making about that much more. That $6600 plus $3k max out of pocket is still less then the increased taxes I would pay in the UK.

[StoliFun]

How likely do you think it is that employers are going to bump your salary $10K if we go to UHC?

When I changed jobs about 5 years ago I was paying $550/mo for basically the same coverage that I have now, but as a contractor I was making about that much more. That $6600 plus $3k max out of pocket is still less then the increased taxes I would pay in the UK.

Katya422 can correct me if I'm wrong, but rather than suggesting that salaries would be bumped if we adopted UHC, she was trying to apprise some miscers that their employer-based health insurance actually costs a lot more than what they pay in premiums.

[ButWhoWasNoodz]

Strong reading comprehension. They may have gripes with their health coverage, as every system has flaws, but no one is advocating that they swap to a system similar to the U.S., where they rely on the generosity of their employer to provide decent health insurance

Nice anecdote.

Ah, yes, much anecdote. Here's the story from the right-wing Boston globe:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyl...NSL/story.html

The kid would have died in the UK NHS.
"It took months for yhe NHS to approve the child to travel to the US foe treatment"
Just LOL at asking a government bureaucrat for permission to receive medical care.

Also for your education:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-cou...or-health-care

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ists-lengthen/

STFU. Hopefully you spend that 5 cents from ShareBlue well.

[isingmodel]

Ah, yes, much anecdote. Here's the story from the right-wing Boston globe:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyl...NSL/story.html

The kid would have died in the UK NHS.
"It took months for yhe NHS to approve the child to travel to the US foe treatment"
Just LOL at asking a government bureaucrat for permission to receive medical care.

Also for your education:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-cou...or-health-care

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ists-lengthen/

STFU. Hopefully you spend that 5 cents from ShareBlue well.

So I actually read the article you linked unlike yourself:

IN OLIVER’S CASE, while the UK’s socialized health care system would guarantee that any medical procedure he underwent within the country — and even within the European Union — would be cost-free for the family, it took months of petitioning the country’s National Health Service from Oliver’s pediatric cardiologist in Southampton, Dr. Shankar Sadagopan, for approval to fund Oliver’s trip and procedure at Boston Children’s. By late 2017, however, they were finally ready to travel to Boston.

So the NHS fully funded both the travel and the procedure for a family who otherwise would have never been able to afford a complex surgery at a private hospital, and this is your example of why the NHS is bad?

[isingmodel]

lol when you put it like that

what would have happened to a Medicare kid in us?

Not sure exactly how it would work in that case. What I do know is that if the family didn't have insurance or if they had one of the many insurance plans that wouldn't cover an expensive procedure like that, then the kid's tour is over.

Meanwhile the NHS paid not only for the procedure but also for his travel, and apparently this is a bad thing.

Republicans aren't too bright.