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Originally Posted by winter4me
that post was for SM.
I have actually considered suicide in the future in order to spare my adult kids from being stuck caring for me, or my ending up in the current system. and I have been an RN for nearly 40yrs, and Aide before that, work with the elderly now and with kids (summer camp/school sub)---I've never seen it so cruel and nasty. Two thirds of ALL bankruptcies in the USA are related to medical bills. I am 60, have never been medically ill or hospitalized for any reason, take no meds for physical reasons, and I pay out of pocket---cannot afford insurance any longer... I work full time, always have, and am just a few steps from ruin should something go wrong---soon I will have insurance from work that will cover next to nothing.
For a no frills (no lab work, no breast exam, no internal) physical, I was recently billed $200.00. My patients pay hundreds of dollars more a month for meds than they would if they were not in care.... I have some hope that Obama has started something decent (no longer excluding pre-existing conditions, getting the healthier in at a reasonable price, and at least getting a discussion going) It is too bad the UK is going the route we have traveled.
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I can totally relate to thoughts of suicide in the future. I hope that you manage to keep your health. I have no security for the future and because of changes here already I can't afford to get my teeth replaced if anything happens to them.
Here the NHS is being privatised by stealth. One example of the way things have been going is that a lot of doctors surgeries had switched to private telephone contracts (so that they can profit from your calls to them) which can be expensive if you need to phone to make appointments a lot and are kept on call-waiting. A lot of people complained and at my own doctor's surgery they finally switched back to a cheaper telephone line but only after a very long period of time.
What's galling is that the doctors already get very high, and sometimes huge salaries funded by the taxpayer as well as what they can earn privately.
The general trend seems to be for the gap between the richer/more powerful widening between the poorer/more vulnerable.