Guys

I would like someone to clear up something I have been hearing about the current US healthcare system:

1) You have to have health insurance which you can only afford if you are working, i.e. if you loose your job you and your family no longer have health insurance.

2) If you do not have health insurance you do not get picked up by an ambulance if you collapse in the street.

3) If you suffer from a long-term illness your health insurance can/will get cut off.

4) Roughly, 1 in 10 health insurance claims are turned down.

5) Americans are prohibited from going to Canada or Mexico to buy cheaper (life saving) drugs or having their prescriptions filled.

6) The only people that can afford to be sick are the wealthy.

I am not trying to make any kind of political capital or have a hidden agenda, it's just that these are the things I have been hearing in the UK and I would like someone to clear things up.


UK Bob