mrcusa

I have paid years of all sorts of insurance.

I stop paying and I am not covered anymore.

Besides which, are you referrring to the £20 per month that you paid?

Deduct the pension bit from the last NHI contribution you made on your wage slip. Was it £20 left for the medical insurance bit?

That is $40

AdobePinon

Hope you've got a lot of cash!

BritGuyTN

That was my attitude before I moved here, but when you still pay the american equivilent of national insurance (medicare) but you can't benefit from it, and the insurance system is shite then I changed my mind quickly

technology available and general cleanliness is generally worse when you look at the USA as a whole, not just a top hospital in San Diego/Boston etc

mrcusa

How long shall we give him?

6 months before the rude awakening?

BritGuyTN

Don't quite follow - I've never had a pension bit on a payslip

mrcusa

Well the NHI deduction on your wageslip is for state pension and health insurance together.

You can calculate the pension bit, so you know how much you are actually paying for the healthcare bit.

gooner81

My friend was in a chicago hospital for 8 weeks so thats what it was based on i guess it generally comes down to where you live, having also been in a hospital (not for me) in orlando i was pretty impressed with the facilities etc.

I will moving to the DC vacinity and here's hoping there are hospitals are of a high standard.

BritGuyTN

Hmm, just learnt something.

So how do i do that calc?

mrcusa

Well for 2004 / 2005 the minimum pension payment was £7.15 per week, £371.80 for the year.

I would have to look at the Inland Revenue website to get the increase relative to wage level.

If you just deduct that though, it doesn't leave much for healthcare does it?

Bob

10 days is pretty good, when the missus was sick, her doctor said come back in 3 months time and they'll see her then, if it's life threatening, go to ER...

candy wy.

I am sure you will find some very nice looking hospitals in DC. as for the standards every hospital has it horror stories. The problem will be can you afford to be a patient in one of them..

Englishmum

And don't forget that an element of your Class 1 National Insurance stamp also pays for any unemployment benefit claim you might make.....

gooner81

Well hopefully being a professional Accountant will give me good benefits with the job they normally do. Yeah every hosptial has horror stories even those in the UK..... ours are so dirty MRSA the super virus is a big issue over here and you don't here too much about it over the pond. or at least i haven't.

TouristTrap

CNN in every room, and a marble foyer, do not a hospital make. But then if you're equating care with the building, you'll be in for a rude awakening.

You just have to read Rockgurl's posts to know what healthcare is truly like over here.

And to the Brits who diss the NHS, I say pfffft.....

I had better care in S.A. than I've ever had here.

Bob

depends where you live in both cases...hospital here is utterly shite and just as dirty as back home, even worse than the JR in Oxford...and at the end of the day, I'd rather have someone skilled, and treat me with out worrying about the cost over some shiny marble floored hospital that's more worried that i'll bleed on the floor and insurance papers than to actually care for me.