Quote Originally Posted by carole View Post
I don't know how it all works over there, but here even if you don't have private medical insurance, you can see a doctor, we have a community services card which allows us to get cheaper doctors fees and prescriptions, you have to qualify for this, hubby and I do, your income has to be within certain limits.

And you can still get operations and seen to at our public hospitals, of course there is a waiting list, and that is why i choose to have surgery cover incase i need urgent surgery i can have it, as waiting for the public might endanger one's life or one may be in a lot of pain until you receive surgery.

I thought medical care in the states was only not affordable for those who were on very low incomes, the poor, but at $12,000 dollars a year, we certainly could not afford to pay that, it seems outrageous and yes in a country such as the United States, it is not good enough is it?

I think at one time they were trying to privatize all medical care here too,but i am so thankful it did not happen, as it stands now one does have a choice and one can get medical care, no matter what your financial status is.

Our system is very much like yours. Everybody has an insurance; lots of people also have a "hospital-insurance". This mostly through work. This insurance pays most of your bills for you! That was very interesting for me last years, since I was in hospital for at least 6 times...