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Socialized Medicine is off the radar now with Trump in the White House. My liberal Facebook friends a now not shy about posting things like this.

A UK kid needs money to continue his treatment in the US.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding ... ourney2020

I guess the UK doctors said he would just die. So US doctors saved his life, but now he needs an up dated Metal knee as he grows and the UK won’t pay for it, after all he was going to die.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/night ... a-treated/

Canada’s failed health system left 33 year old woman barren.

She has been prescribed grief therapy but they can’t see her for six months.

Oh another estimate of Medicare for all would just require doubling personal and corporate income tax.

WTR wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 10:49 am

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 10:40 am Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones has had to cancel their tour. He requires heart valve replacement surgery.

Mick will be having his free UK National Health Service surgery at the Charing Cross Hospital in London. It has 4 out of 5 stars.

If I had Jagger’s money, I would be paying for a 5 out of 5 star hospital what ever the cost or location.

It’s April 1

Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones has had to cancel their tour. He requires heart valve replacement surgery.

Mick will be having his free UK National Health Service surgery at the Charing Cross Hospital in London. It has 4 out of 5 stars.

anygunanywhere wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 11:15 am I broke my leg in Edmonton Alberta back in 2009. The Canadian hospital said they could fix my leg but there was a two week wait for surgery.

I had them fix it so I could fly to Houston to the Texas Medical Center.

Then they tried to sue me for recovery of the workmen's comp costs.

Canada

My parents lived in Edmonton for about 3 years. My mom was going through menopause at the time. She was taking some pills to help with the symptoms. She ran out and went a doctor in Edmonton. He gave her a prescription for group therapy instead. She called her American doctor whose response was "savages" and sent her a prescription for the pills she had been taking.

Canada:

I traveled to Campabello Island in Canada to the Summer home of FDR. Its very near the tip of Maine. In the gift shop, the young woman behind the counter asked any of the Americans in the shop if they wanted to know about the Canadian health system, since at the time the Congress was debating Obamacare. It was all over the news at the time.

Many in the shop said yes. She said it is great. She said she was a single mom with a 9 month old at home. She said that her pregnancy cost her nothing out of pocket, it was great. She loved the Canadian health care system.

I asked her where did she have the baby. Oh, in the US as there were no nearby Canadian hospitals.

ghostrider wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:18 pm

I don't understand why American drug companies charge Americans more than anyone else.

that's a multiple choice question :-)


1. profit
2. greed
3. power
4. because they can
5. all the above
6. other countries have more regulation (read: price control)
7. maybe it is as expensive in other countries but its hidden under that 'free' umbrella

In the US it’s what the market will bear.

Generics are dirt cheap here.

Name brands different story.

They have to make back their costs in a relatively short period of time till they become generic.

Foreign governments can negotiate a lower price than the US consumer or insurance company because of volume.

Poor countries can get a lower price because congress doesn’t allow those drugs to be reimported back to the US.

One of the issues with a nationalized medical system here in the US is that innovation will stop.

I’m going to discuss healthcare overseas and in our neighbor to the North. These will be from personal experience, experience of others I know or from news stories I have read. Please feel free to add your own. Of special interest are countries that have superior healthcare according to the United Nations.

Tip: make sure you have the proper heath insurance when you travel. Air evacuation is an important feature.

Cuba:

The father of an acquaintance recently took a cruise around Cuba. He came down with an sudden illness while on board. He deteriorated to the point that the Ship doctor wanted him in a hospital. At the hospital in Cuba, he was put on life support. The doctors there told his wife he was dieing and to prepare for his death. With the help of the US Embassy in Havana, the wife somehow figured out how to get the visas, and clearance for a life flight jet from the US. He was air lifted to Florida where he did not die and is fine today.