I recently broke my wrist while skateboarding, I'm 34 so that is my first mistake
I had two X-rays and anaesthetic and need my hand pulled out of my forearm and the bones manipulated back inline with eachother. I've got an appointment next week, if my bones have moved I'll need surgery to have my bones wired together
That is all free on the NHS, I did a little look in America what I've had done would of cost me $6-7000 if I had no insurance. If I need surgery it would be an extra $10,000+ more on top.
What's your views on American healthcare?
Is insurance cheaper than what I pay in taxes?
Do the insurance companies try to screw you out of care?
How much do the premium costs rise after having surgery or care?
I know Trump cut out the middleman on medication, how corrupt is the system with so many people making money in between the gaps?
I'm completely ignorant on American healthcare system but I personally like free healthcare, I know such leftie talk is not welcome here but I'm happy to hear your opinions.
Edit: I'm asking how the American system works, most people want to just talk about the NHS and it's failures which there is many. What are the pros and cons of American private as I have no idea about it
Don't take this as being mean, I'm just speaking plainly and honestly to you:
You like free healthcare because you're a freeloader fuck up.
The pros of private healthcare (which we do not have in the US to any meaningful degree) is the individual makes all the decisions and bears all the consequences. The result of this is freeloaders don't drag society down to their level, and the freeloaders also develop a higher degree of self responsibility. It also drives costs down as doctors and hospitals compete to provide the best services and treatments.
The closest thing to market pricing for surgery in the US is at https://surgerycenterok.com
"Freeloader fuck up" you don't even know me or what I do for living, how do you know I'm a freeloader?
If you're talking the rhetorical 'you' I understand but to call me that so you feel better is foolish.
I've worked since I was 16, in mechanics and then construction for 11 years and not taken a single penny from the state.
I've added a lot of value to society
I know you just stuck your fellow countrymen for tens of thousands in surgery and physical therapy expenses from a skateboarding accident and are quite pleased about it.
That's info you gave me, I'm not assuming anything.
How am I pleased about that? What did I say? Or are you just a dickhead.
Yes, yes he is.
The US health cartels successfully tied health care (erroneously called "insurance") plans to the workplace. Employers pay in per employee and the employee also pays in by force. They must go to in-network doctors who follow the insurance company's directives for care else they get expelled/not paid.
Alternatives still exist but they're making it harder each year to have medical freedom by centralizing and monopolizing care under the cartels.
If one can find a independent group share plan, everyone pays in and covers each other without the cartel rules. If one has money saved up they can have their own funds cover themselves, but must negotiate "cash prices" for care.
Some enterprising docs are banding together for subscription care, called different things but essentially one pays their group directly and gets all care or cheaper a la carte care, even house visits, with that practice or group.
But you live on welfare. The biggest mistake the UK made after WWII was going full tilt socialism, Soviet-lite, and the second biggest was the US letting them.
Do you think we're communists? That we have no private enterprise? There is a welfare system like America has but we do have jobs as well.
I'm self employed so I file a tax return each year, I don't get welfare, sick pay or holiday pay.