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Originally Posted by garinda
I paid N.I. contributions right from graduating until I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease two years ago when I was thirty nine.
I'm glad you are well and happy with the health service in the States. Sadly a lot of people I know there, with long term degenerative illnesses, aren't so fortunate and most medical insurance companies wouldn't touch them with a ten foot barge pole, even if it was shaking wildly.  |
There was a BBC programme about Brits living in the USA and everyone of them said the one thing they missed was NHS. It was a far better system. Some admitted they flew back to Blightly for health care and this caused a storm amongst UK Brits about what is essentially health tourism and the abuse by ex Brits of our NHS.
On this idea of free markets;
Conservatives believe in market forces and a minimum of government interference into the way markets operate. It is market forces that have driven up the cost of dentistry, and to boot house prices and utility bills (for different reasons ). As Conservative's I guess you are rejoicing in the operation of a free market in these areas?