USBound

how many people actually RECEIVED healthcare during last year... definitely NEEDS adding to that list of questions.

Jerseygirl

Sheffield...are you a Yorkie too?

USBound

yup .. from pontefract (ish)... not far from you at all.

tony126

No problem with my root canal here. Done and dusted at $512 last month and I do not have insurance. I did not have a problem wiht UK Dentists either but the equipment they have here is absolutely amazing. In fact have an appointment this Tuesday for a partial filling.

britvic

Well that was well cheep for US prices.

paddingtongreen

These discussions don't go very far without information. The two articles, linked below, are on a statistical study performed at University College London, on middle aged whites. It appears that way of life may be more important than the health system for these people.

http://economistsview.typepad.com/ec...nglish_he.html

http://economistsview.typepad.com/ec...rugman_ou.html

Jerseygirl

Ooooo love them cakes.

britvic

Interesting read. Choose to not add anything else "backlash"

geordiegirl2

These are great articles, while I know there many problems with the NHS I believe the all round public health ethos is sound.
I have never seen so many complications of diseases such as diabetes since I came here and these are in people who have good jobs with good insurance lans.
The insurance companies are very shortsighted in their approach which turns out to be very costly both financially to them and personally to the individual.

Old William

Young Cancer Patients More Likely To Die In Countries Where Health Care Is Funded By Private Insurance

Old William

Excerpts from Walter Bradley who is the Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the school of Medicine at the University of Miami....

http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/Wal...ongVersion.pdf

We all know that the United States health care system is in trouble. The US spends over $2 trillion a year on health care, almost 17% of the GDP. By comparison, Switzerland, Germany and Canada spend about 10% of their GDP on health care, while United Kingdom spends less than 8%.

Despite this, the 2005 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of sicker adults from six countries, Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the US reported that "(t)he United States often stands out with high medical errors and inefficient care and has the worst performance for access/cost barriers and financial burdens."

Moreover, the US lags well behind many other countries in indices of quality of care.

In 2005 the US ranked 42nd among the world's nations in infant mortality, with 6.50 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, behind such nations as Singapore (2.29), Sweden (2.77), France (4.26), Canada (4.75) and United Kingdom (5.16), and was 29th among developed countries in maternal mortality.

In 2004, 46 million people (15.7% of the US population, about one-fifth of them children) were without any form of health insurance. Many of these have been without health care for years, though others are between jobs that provide health care coverage.

In addition another 50 million people in the US have inadequate health care coverage and would be bankrupted by a serious illness.

Old William

I honestly believe that a bigger issue in the US is that Corporate America has a vested interest in maintaining an unhealthy populace.

TouristTrap

I agree.

Elvira

http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2006/05/01/4730.html

"Once out of school, young adults join the millions of diabetics for whom health insurance is a matter of not just physical, but financial, survival. They won’t find much solace, however, in this shared reality: Most diabetes policy experts agree that, in America today, no government-sponsored health protection provides coverage that is at once available, affordable and adequate for diabetes care."

Not just diabetes - the same goes for any young adult with a serious pre-existing condition.

BigDavyG

You do in the UK