Healthcare around the world

[SSH]

NHS is great for people with chronic illnesses that aren't their fault (which seems to be the opposite of what the US people think). e.g. my wife has Type 1 diabetes and so gets all her treatment for that completely free and all other prescriptions, too. Pregnant women get free prescriptions too, and free dental (since babies can drain the calcium from a mother) and that lasts until 1 year after the birth of the child whether the child survives or not. Now, I'd like to know how someone with Type 1 diabetes would get by in the US witout spending a fortune.

[Vince Twelve]

Frankly, after recently having a baby in America *while covered by a good insurance plan* and still having to shell out thousands of dollars of hospital costs, I don't understand how poor people have babies...  And I have no idea how people of any financial situation manage to survive with serious diseases.  Especially if you didn't have coverage when you were first diagnosed with the disease.  It would then become completely impossible to get insurance.  So you have to choose between getting treatment or going bankrupt.  And people in this country are worried about the government rationing care... as if that isn't what the insurance companies are doing now...

[Calin Leafshade]

Interestingly there's just been a thread about this on another forum i frequent (asrai.org if you care)

It seems that people who have socialised medicine wouldn't give it up for the world and people that dont have it (americans mainly) rabidly oppose it.. I'm not sure what that tells us.