"Omelet" <omp_omelet@g_mail.com> wrote in message
news:omp_omelet-6E2072.15331308092007@news.giganews.com...
> In article <5kds0kF27qgrU2@mid.individual.net>, "Ophelia" <O@nix.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Omelet wrote:
>> >
>> > I have no specific quotes, but I have Internet friends in England that
>> > have told me of such.
>>
>> we have very long waiting lists for the NHS. It is at its best for
>> emergency or trauma.
>>
>> We pay for BUPA and I have made very good use of it over the past few
>> years.
>> I have had both knees replaced and implants into both eyes. If I had to
>> wait for the NHS I would be blind and in a wheelchair now:(
>
> It's a bit frightening...
>
> Before dad was old enough to qualify for SSI (Medicare A and B, age 65)
> he had a very bad hernia. Being a veteran on total Government assistance
> (not sure that medicare would have been much better), he had to wait 9
> months for surgery to repair it.
>
> In the meantime, he had to lie down on the bed a couple of times per day
> at least to "adjust" his hernia when the pain got really bad.
>
> He had to manipulate the area and tuck his intestines back into place
> that were trying to come thru the abdominal wall.
>
> Government health care is not all it's cracked up to be. The abuse of
> the system floods it.
>
> And I understand that the health care workers pay is so bad, there are
> not enough of them to serve the needs of the public.
>
> I'm just glad that his appendicitis attack in April of 2006 was treated
> more expediently. He was 73 at the time.
>
> There IS social health care in the US for some. Medicare and Medicaid.
>
> We still are paying out the co-pay balance of around $4,000,00, but
> that's do-able over time.
> --
> Peace, Om

DH's father has had hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of treatment
under the Veteran Administration from the best doctors at Yale. His care is
excellent. I'd say 150% it's so good. He has survived two cancers,
hernias, and you operations, rehabs, etc. He is not in debt from all this.
He's living a decent life and we are thankful.
Dee Dee