celticstar

It's now £7.20p for a single prescription here in the UK.
I have to admit that health care is one of my concerns about moving to the US, over here I can get in and see my doctor on the same day for emergencies or within a week for non urgent appts.
I was diagnosed with ME over five years ago and that process involved a lot of blood tests, x-rays, MRI scans and hospital appts, all of which cost me nothing because of the NHS.
After being diagnosed I had my own ME counseller who taught me coping methods and gave me an idea of what to expect with my long term health, without her I would have seriously struggled to get to grips with my condition.
As it was, I was able to concentrate on getting all the care that I could for my - at times - extremely debilitating illness, there are still days when I cannot even walk to the bathroom and am pretty much bedbound, thankfully these days are few and far between and only occur when I've pushed myself too hard and too far, I know the warning signs thanks to the brilliant care I received at the hands of the NHS so can listen to my body when it starts to tell me that enough is enough.
Would it have been the same if I had to go through the American health care system?
I think not, I would have been stumped at the initial blood tests and further tests purely because of the money involved.
Therefore I wouldn't have gotten a definite diagnoses and wouldn't have been able to subsequently get the after care that I needed.
There's also the time I had a big motorcycle accident, I had various internal bleeds, lots of broken bones including my spine and a lengthy hospital stay, after I was discharged I also had a long time in Physiotherapy and lots of follow up hospital appts.
Of course, I'm not American and didn't go through the American health care system, I might be wrong. My point is that ok, there are flaws to the NHS, of course there are, there's still bureaucrats running it, but in essence it works and it works well.
Having a health system run this way is not the end of the world as some people seem to think (not on this thread I hasten to add) it's worked more than once for me and plenty of other people that I know.
It's not the system that makes the people work, it's the people that make the system work.

It's now £7.20p for a single prescription here in the UK.
I have to admit that health care is one of my concerns about moving to the US, over here I can get in and see my doctor on the same day for emergencies or within a week for non urgent appts.
I was diagnosed with ME over five years ago and that process involved a lot of blood tests, x-rays, MRI scans and hospital appts, all of which cost me nothing because of the NHS.
After being diagnosed I had my own ME counseller who taught me coping methods and gave me an idea of what to expect with my long term health, without her I would have seriously struggled to get to grips with my condition.
As it was, I was able to concentrate on getting all the care that I could for my - at times - extremely debilitating illness, there are still days when I cannot even walk to the bathroom and am pretty much bedbound, thankfully these days are few and far between and only occur when I've pushed myself too hard and too far, I know the warning signs thanks to the brilliant care I received at the hands of the NHS so can listen to my body when it starts to tell me that enough is enough.
Would it have been the same if I had to go through the American health care system?
I think not, I would have been stumped at the initial blood tests and further tests purely because of the money involved.
Therefore I wouldn't have gotten a definite diagnoses and wouldn't have been able to subsequently get the after care that I needed.
There's also the time I had a big motorcycle accident, I had various internal bleeds, lots of broken bones including my spine and a lengthy hospital stay, after I was discharged I also had a long time in Physiotherapy and lots of follow up hospital appts.
Of course, I'm not American and didn't go through the American health care system, I might be wrong. My point is that ok, there are flaws to the NHS, of course there are, there's still bureaucrats running it, but in essence it works and it works well.
Having a health system run this way is not the end of the world as some people seem to think (not on this thread I hasten to add) it's worked more than once for me and plenty of other people that I know.
It's not the system that makes the people work, it's the people that make the system work.