With the talk about health care I can only say what a great experience she had. Immediate attention and getting a top person (a Professor) out of bed at 2 in the morning to come in to carry out the examination etc.
I was reading an American blogging on and on and complaining about 'Socialised Medicine' in the UK. He didn't seem to have a clue - he seemed to think it was compulsory to go to a NHS hospital not understanding if a person was wealthy then they could go private if they wished - exactly as in the US. While, if they were poor they would get looked after at no cost to them in the UK 'Socialised Medicine' system whereas in the US they could have huge costs or not be looked after at all.
They are the only industrialised country with a private system - everybody else is wrong.
The thing I can't see is how they continue to put up with paying overall twice as much as any other industrialised nation with half the outcome.
Actually I can see why! The problem is that they are held hostage by the extremely wealthy health industry wanting to greedily make money at the expense of the average American. A couple of weeks ago Obama said the US Health 'system' should try to solve what is wrong with a sick person - not just carry out test etc to run up bills!!
Last week we watched a BBC documentary about people arriving at a hospital at some ungodly hour like 2 AM to join the queue (hundreds long) to get seen by a doctor. One woman with cancer couldn't pay a cent so it was tough - just have to die with no medical help unless she could find a charity hospital to look after her. She couldn't and that was why she was at the hospital they were filming. Sickening is the pun.
Do I have faith that Obama will fix it. No - the lousy ratbags who run the 'system' will be too strong. I hope I am wrong.
