ColinEssex
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There's one thing that inrigues me, American health insurance.
There was a report on the BBC news saying that 1 in 6 Americans have no health cover. We are led to believe (rightly or wrongly) that if you go to hospital in the USA the first thing they ask is if you have health cover.
So here's the questions
a) Are there any Americans here willing to confess they have no health cover?
b) How much does it cost?
c) What does it cover?
d) What happens if you go to the casualty (ER) and don't have cover, are you refused treatment? If not, what's the point of having cover if you get treated anyway.
We have the free NHS in the UK (except for dental treatment) there are many anomolies with it, but basically if you need treatment you get it for free.
It seems this is becoming a US election issue - why is that? do Americans want a different system like being treated for free like in the UK?
This isn't an anti-American bash, just trying to understand how it all works.
Col
There was a report on the BBC news saying that 1 in 6 Americans have no health cover. We are led to believe (rightly or wrongly) that if you go to hospital in the USA the first thing they ask is if you have health cover.
So here's the questions
a) Are there any Americans here willing to confess they have no health cover?
b) How much does it cost?
c) What does it cover?
d) What happens if you go to the casualty (ER) and don't have cover, are you refused treatment? If not, what's the point of having cover if you get treated anyway.
We have the free NHS in the UK (except for dental treatment) there are many anomolies with it, but basically if you need treatment you get it for free.
It seems this is becoming a US election issue - why is that? do Americans want a different system like being treated for free like in the UK?
This isn't an anti-American bash, just trying to understand how it all works.
Col