As a child of the NHS, and a nurse who has always worked within it, I find much that I learn about the US healthcare system via LJ quite shocking. Although, I have to say, the NHS is not brilliant at mental health care - but it is reasonably good, and available to all.
I cannot understand why so many Americans seem positively scared of National Insurance for health care rather than the 'rich get cured and the poor don't matter' system that you seem to have, when looked at from here.
The only person on LJ who has actually asked me to defriend them used to get very protective of your health care system - she was the one person in the comments to this post that supported Rudi Giuliani's right to lie about how well I do my job
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We who are on line have a unique opportunity: to collect stories of medical neglect due to a faulty health care "system", then send these hundreds - or thousands - of horror tales to our elected representatives and our President with a letter DEMANDING quality health care for ALL, regardless of ability to pay! Also, to publish our findings by emailing all on our email lists with these facts. We need to get all this information on line where the American people can see it and become as outraged as I am. Sad as it may seem, in this "Best of all countries" if an ill person has an undiagnosed life-threatening illness and lacks insurance or other means to pay, that person has a death sentence hanging over his or her head. Something needs to be done about this. If Sweden or the UK, for example, can get health care to even the poorest of the poor, then why can't we?
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I also hope Adie gets the help she needs as well...
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I cannot understand why so many Americans seem positively scared of National Insurance for health care rather than the 'rich get cured and the poor don't matter' system that you seem to have, when looked at from here.
The only person on LJ who has actually asked me to defriend them used to get very protective of your health care system - she was the one person in the comments to this post that supported Rudi Giuliani's right to lie about how well I do my job ( ... )
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Sad as it may seem, in this "Best of all countries" if an ill person has an undiagnosed life-threatening illness and lacks insurance or other means to pay, that person has a death sentence hanging over his or her head. Something needs to be done about this. If Sweden or the UK, for example, can get health care to even the poorest of the poor, then why can't we?
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