WarriorSpouse wrote:http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/05/31/oncology-nurse-forced-to-fundraise-for-terminal-cancer-treatment-says-its-working.html
This is a recent article I read concerning the lack of (NHS) coverage for Avastin payments in the United Kingdom's, National Health Service... So much for "FREE healthcare."
When I read this article, and others like it, I thank my lucky stars for paying for my healthcare coverage in the U.S. I know this fight is not cheap for any family, but at least my insurance coverage in the U.S. allows my wife to continue to survive living with this disease, without bringing us into bankruptcy for the most updated and effective treatment plan. Clearly we have to budget the premiums, copays and deductibles; but we plan it as a known yearly expense.
...For this, I am forever so grateful!
WS
Hi Stu,stu wrote:People don’t seem to realise we also have private medicine . Many people have insurance through work or privately arranged .
The NHS recently removed Avastin but kept two other biological agents . Scotland has kept three....................As a point of interest my mum’s liver surgeon is also surgeon to the Queen !!! He works for the NHS . If it’s good enough for the Queen then it worked for us too
Take care everyone ,
Stu
Officially in Ontario you can't pay for health care services that theoretically speaking are available for free.NHMike wrote:One of my previous project leaders worked in the UK and she explained the system there. There is National Healthcare and then you can pay an additional amount to get a higher level of service and coverage. So they have a two-tiered system. I think that this is analogous to Medicaid and corporate healthcare where the coverage levels can be vastly different. I understand that other countries with national healthcare systems have the same kind of two-tiered system.
Utwo wrote:Officially in Ontario you can't pay for health care services that theoretically speaking are available for free.NHMike wrote:One of my previous project leaders worked in the UK and she explained the system there. There is National Healthcare and then you can pay an additional amount to get a higher level of service and coverage. So they have a two-tiered system. I think that this is analogous to Medicaid and corporate healthcare where the coverage levels can be vastly different. I understand that other countries with national healthcare systems have the same kind of two-tiered system.
As a result we are getting an infamous "waiting times" problem.
According to propagandists from Ontario Healthcare Ministry we have a single tier system.
In reality people with better connections are getting preferential treatment.
It's a de-facto two-tier system that is organised slightly differently.
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