health care

[princess]

Princess, nothing is free. Your country's outragous tax rate is a testament to that!

yeah very true but i'm still at college so i don't have to worry about tax yet

 

[rallysman]

Where do advancements come from when there is no incentive to advance?

 

[cichlid2006]

I think the health-care service is rubbish, I mean they expect us to wait in their waiting-rooms and there loads of really sick people there! And when you get out, you've caught whatever the other people had!

dawn a quick not on your blog.

the nhs has its problems but you cant knock the nurses and docs. they do a great job under immense pressure and less resources than the private sector. my first surgeon who screwed my foot up was military before someone says anything.
of course in a waiting room there are loads of sick people, its a hospital. waiting in a hospital waiting room is not different to waiting in a shop with people who are carrying cold or flu viruses or being packed into a bus/train with people coughing and sneezing all over the place.

its the red tape and the dozens of un-needed managers that cause problems for the NHS, by claiming tens/hundreds of thousands in wages and depriving the servise of valuable funds.

 

[JD7.62]

wrong ,we spread it. and becouse of their are no company's ( who only want profit )
we have more healthy peaple = more efficient working power ( without working more then 38 hours an week mostly )

and again no company's means it made to make you better , make you live longer

we make more monet then an average american , with the sytem , the difference is that your upperclas peaple make over rediculas cach , and there is no middelclas .

if they woud make healthcare commercial , there wil be a revolution .

last time they wanted to peaple who are in risk djobs more pay for the health care and farmers ended up pumping the basement of our prime minister ful of crap .

we were not selfich we share our money .

i mean you can get really rich fast in the us if you a djob don't sick or accident or something . but with just a bit of bad luck you wil faster poor then you can fall in the us .

Eskimo, how does your country's GDP compare to ours? Americans dont mind working 40,50,60, or even 80hrs a week. We value hard work.

So you are suggesting that working hard and getting rich is bad? I'm sorry but its traditional in my country that hard work is rewarded. We try to have incentives to get rich, not stay poor...well now there is "change" there are more incentives to stay poor but we wont go there.

No middle class? What am I? I am not rich and I am not in poverty either.

What about the $6750 I quoted for the BEST HEALTHCARE IN THE WORLD? Americans spend 5-6x that much on a car like its nothing! I dont know about you but Id rather pay money for some one to save my life then to spend that much on a car!

Another thing in my country is that we believe in responsibility for one's self (again thats "changing" though). We, for the most part, do not ask for hand outs from other people. We also do not like it when the .gov sticks its grubby hands in our pockets to pay for some one else. Health care is not a RIGHT, its a PRIVILEGE, fork up the cash or get left out.

Where do advancements come from when there is no incentive to advance?

Levi, some people just dont understand capitalism...

 

[RyanS]

So you are suggesting that working hard and getting rich is bad?

Ugg, I still don't understand why some people think being successful is a bad thing.

+1 on the good coverage as well. I pay a whopping $30/month, I've never received a bill for anything, not even prescriptions. I only pay the copay.

 

[cassharper]

Ugg, I still don't understand why some people think being successful is a bad thing.

+1 on the good coverage as well. I pay a whopping $30/month, I've never received a bill for anything, not even prescriptions. I only pay the copay.

+1. I pay $85/mo for full health, dental, vision, and life insurance on me and my woman.

Yes, there may be flaws in our systems... but I dare you to find one that doesn't. We could all move to France where you can have a doctor come to your house free of charge for a headache. Then again, the average wait on a diagnostic MRI is 14 months. Hope what you needed the MRI for wasn't serious...

 

[eskimo]

for an mri ? my dad got one the week after the dokter wanted an opointment , working hard is no bad thing , but the normal workers in your country are underpaid and exutive peaple are way overpaid .

 

[RyanS]

for an mri ? my dad got one the week after the dokter wanted an opointment , working hard is no bad thing , but the normal workers in your country are underpaid and exutive peaple are way overpaid .

Average incomes are higher here than in Belgium. Just thought you should know. You should thank your excellent healthcare system, you have the highest income tax rate of all OECD countries.

50% tax rate for anyone earning over 32.720 euro. You also pay between 0%-8.5% for cummunal and regional taxes of the total income tax payable. Someone that earns the same amount here pays only 25%.

 

[cassharper]

for an mri ? my dad got one the week after the dokter wanted an opointment , working hard is no bad thing , but the normal workers in your country are underpaid and exutive peaple are way overpaid .

1) I said france, not countries north of france

2) I also said average

 

[dawn]

Yes, but its not very wise to expect the elderly to go to the docs (even for a check-up), and they end up in hospital! I'm saying this, because my grandfather has to go soon, and he's dreading it!