Private health insurance in England is for people with plenty of money; the last company i worked for there supplied it at considerable cost to the company and therefore to the employees. I had surgery under each system, and the only difference i noticed in treatment was whether i woke up in a...
Taxes were high (i don't remember the exact percentage), yes, but when the money is used to support programs like medical care, that's fine with me. I have to say, as untrustworthy as governments are, insurance companies are worse.
As i said, the insurance premiums for me and my son became...
I lived in England for a decade. The healthcare system worked great for me and my wife and child, with the lack of fear of being driven into bankruptcy by medical care.
When i moved back to the U.S. and finally realized i needed health insurance, i was looted and plundered by the healthcare...
Language is the beginning of the problem. No one working on the problem seems to be able to leave the insurance industry out of the equation. Is this because of intense lobbying by the industry, to the extent legislators are afraid to even mention the possibility of, perhaps, expanding...