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Originally Posted by bullseyebarb
Go ahead and scoff at our community clinics and other services.....but aren't such services a product of real community and compassion? I believe so.
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I have friends in the U.S. who can't access the same drugs as I get prescribed here, for Parkinson's disease, because their health insurance won't supply them. They are the lucky ones, the ones with some form of health insurance.
As a consequence many of them suffer unnecessarily, and have a poorer quality of life than myself. Other patients with long term degenerative illnesses have similar experiences.
Health insurance companies are businesses, whose primary motivation is making money.
As flawed as it might be, happily here in Britain, patient's needs still take precedence over shareholder's profits.
You shouldn't always believe everything you read in the press.
