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Forum: USA
Mar 6th 2012, 3:27 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

You talk as if it is not being done already
Forum: USA
Mar 6th 2012, 2:45 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

My brother in law is a PCP its no wonder when he encounters people like yrself that he takes great pleasure in inflating your bill with unnecessary tests and procedures.
Forum: USA
Mar 6th 2012, 2:40 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

Sustainable for who exactly? The docs and nurses seem to do ok out of it.
Forum: USA
Mar 6th 2012, 2:39 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

If he is over the age of 60 why hasnt Medicare kicked in? If things so bad could always fly back to the UK as one of the other posters on here suggested happened.
Forum: USA
Mar 6th 2012, 2:37 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

The BMA is neither a friend or the media FYI!
Forum: USA
Mar 6th 2012, 2:14 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

From what you describe completely agree the NHS is not sustainable but doubt any politician will change it much. The health social care bill is an eyewash wont change the problems you describe above....
Forum: USA
Mar 6th 2012, 1:56 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

Appreciate the advise and in good faith. Apologies for the generalisations. I too have experienced both systems and simply prefer the American system. Yes others may have had great experiences of the...
Forum: USA
Mar 6th 2012, 1:34 am
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

Listen if an American goes to work in england they pay tax and ni for benefits they can't claim as they have 'no access to public funds' stamped in their passport. Is it fair? No is it the way it is?...
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 11:48 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

Guess you not seen the referral management systems they got in place in england that are basically designed to block or filter referrals based on arbitrary criteria e.g no Hip replacement if BMI over...
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 11:41 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

Her point being?? I doubt the numbers of people flying back to the UK for cancer treatment would be significant enough to impact on the figures.

Also has anyone here ever been to a county hospital...
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 11:13 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

What about you then saying anyone with cancer and a tie to england is on the first flight back there? That is a juvenile comment if ever to hear one.
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 11:11 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

Well in the NHS the buzzword at the minute is choice choice choice etc etc Harsh truth and fact is there is no choice. The only true choice I ever had in choosing a doctor was here.
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 11:09 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

You think the whole of the US is flying back to the UK then? Doubt its a significant number. Also to access NHS treatment you have to be ordinarily resident for a time period first ?3 or 6 months.
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 11:02 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

The link has the US on it if you care to look at it and has the US at numero uno for cancer survival rates
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 11:01 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

You kidding my Aunt had to wait 14 months to see a neurologist in the States would have been 2 weeks max
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 10:59 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

None of my family ever have, at least here you can see specialists direct.
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 10:56 pm
Replies: 329
Views: 24,661
Posted By dogloverus

Re: Poverty in the USA

They could argue that they paid millions in tax so are entitled to their scripts and bus passes in return. They could say that why should those who have contributed nothing get them?
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 10:53 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

Mixed Sex Wards abundant
Lack of access to latest treatments for cancer etc
Waits of months to see specialists
Use of old techniques for screening e.g in the states you get a colonoscopy as...
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 10:46 pm
Replies: 329
Views: 24,661
Posted By dogloverus

Re: Poverty in the USA

agree no one willing to answer that as long as they are getting all their needs catered for. then when its stopped people wonder why?!
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 10:43 pm
Replies: 329
Views: 24,661
Posted By dogloverus

Re: Poverty in the USA

I glitched I admit I meant the welfare budget of approx 200 billion is far more than education, transport and defence combined,
...
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 10:30 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

As long as you bring 'free at point of use' you open the floodgates to limitless demand that is what will break the back of the NHS if not already :(
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 10:16 pm
Replies: 329
Views: 24,661
Posted By dogloverus

Re: Poverty in the USA

go back and live in england then you are in love with the place!!!!!!
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 9:30 pm
Replies: 333
Views: 20,755
Posted By dogloverus

Re: US Healthcare impressions

i'm not sure if you want a UK style welfare state here but if you do that kind of defeats a lot of what the american ethos was built on.
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 9:28 pm
Replies: 329
Views: 24,661
Posted By dogloverus

Re: Poverty in the USA

and why are you so pro welfare state one of the reasons we move to the States is that more of our income is in our pockets as opposed to funding those who simply to put it bluntly cant be arsed.
Forum: USA
Mar 5th 2012, 8:36 pm
Replies: 329
Views: 24,661
Posted By dogloverus

Re: Poverty in the USA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_for_Work_and_Pensions

The total annual budget of the DWP in 2011-12 is £151.6 billion, representing approximately 28% of total UK Government spending.[13]...
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