Yeah I feel for you. I’m having major surgery sometime in the next 3 months and I will be in hospital for at least a week. The surgery and hospital stay and medication while in hospital is all free plus they will give me some take home medication to cover me until I can see my GP to get prescribed more. The in hospital medication includes all the surgery related / recovery meds plus all the meds I’m already on (I take about 16 pills a day plus 2 asthma inhalers and a weekly injection).

A lot of people don’t like our system and would prefer the American one but I’ve read so many stories of people going int o debt to try and get get health care or being refused a med or treatment because their insurance wouldn’t cover it etc.

Don’t get me wrong our system is far from perfect and the American system has its good points too. I’m just happy to be living here right now heading into what would be a totally unaffordable surgery if I was living in the US and was uninsured or my insurance didn’t approve it.