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Kinda puts our homeopathy debate into the shade a bit. I'd certainly rather fund everything including homeopathy than live in America when it comes to healthcare.
In America, do they not have some kind of national health insurance scheme as well?
Employers contribute towards health insurance and the government pays the remainder, around 60% of it.
your wrong. if i was poor and got medacaid all i would be able to afford were my perscriptions, it would be perscriptions or food if i had medacaid. they have no national health insurance, im an american citizen, and i don't have health insurance. there are no laws that enforce any insurance companies to insure disabled people, none do.
mine are pretty good, i see my gp within a week of making an appointment, i got a ultrasound to check for testicular cancer within 4days
thankfulyl i had nothing so i'm fine
everyone has had the 3hour a&e wait, but that's for non dangerous problem, in regards to acute emergency care for whole population, this country is amazing
Under the assumption that you're talking about a public health care system, I have good experiences with the Norwegian health care system, however, I have had none experiences with serious diseases like cancer etc...
But when I broke my arm about ten years ago, there was no waiting time at all, and physio-therapy to retrain muscles was free.
Also have had good experiences with making general doctor appointments, by most I had to wait a few weeks.
Also tried going to the Doc in britain when being an exchange student. There was actually a GP just outside the student residents, as far as I remember, I had to wait a week or so for the appointment.
For me, this was really a good option. Instead of waiting for several months before a public hospital could take me in, I waited two weeks for the private one. And the price remained the same, because of the agreement. Good stuff.
Was the same small administrative fee as I would have paid if I had decided to wait in the queue in a public hospital
As long as you see a doctor and then possibly a specialist within the public health care system first to get a diagnose, then you're allowed to carry out the procedure in public hospitals or private hospitals with an agreement with the public health care system for that particular procedure.
You can off course, go directly to a private hospital, omitting the public part entirely, but then you would have to pay all costs by yourself.
And best at what? Cancer? preventative medicine? efficient use of resources? equality?