Re: Obamanomics: Healtcare Reform or European-Modeled Socialized Medicine?
You're questions aren't stupid! We're all coming from our own experience, plus the things we've heard other people say.
I know I must sound like I'm banging a drum for the British Health service. It's because I get the impression that it's used as a scare story in the US. Certainly, before I came over here, I was told that British dentistry was 'pretty third world'. As a consequence, I agreed to the surgical removal of a wisdom tooth that wasn't troubling me, 'just in case'.
I ended up marrying an English dentist! And I have all my teeth (except that one I left in Queen's), and my three kids have had years' worth of free orthodontic treatment. Spike Milligan's poem about 'English Teeth' still makes me laugh, though.
Britain had a comparatively easy time converting to a national health service. It was immediately after the Second World War, when there was a sense of togetherness as a nation. Many doctors weren't entirely happy with it at first, but there was no established insurance industry, and Big Pharma was only in its infancy, I guess, certainly not the multinational octopus it is now.
Originally posted by surlygirly
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I know I must sound like I'm banging a drum for the British Health service. It's because I get the impression that it's used as a scare story in the US. Certainly, before I came over here, I was told that British dentistry was 'pretty third world'. As a consequence, I agreed to the surgical removal of a wisdom tooth that wasn't troubling me, 'just in case'.
I ended up marrying an English dentist! And I have all my teeth (except that one I left in Queen's), and my three kids have had years' worth of free orthodontic treatment. Spike Milligan's poem about 'English Teeth' still makes me laugh, though.
Britain had a comparatively easy time converting to a national health service. It was immediately after the Second World War, when there was a sense of togetherness as a nation. Many doctors weren't entirely happy with it at first, but there was no established insurance industry, and Big Pharma was only in its infancy, I guess, certainly not the multinational octopus it is now.
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