Carryfast:
The-Snowman:
Actually the real world is “Oh youre ill? Come in and lets get you looked at and see how we can make you better” Vs “Oh youre ill? And you dont have insurance? Well you need to leave then. Good bye”No the real world is being in the throes of severe sepsis resulting from septiceamia caused by obviously severely infected un/misdiagnosed arterial leg ulcers including obvious presence of gangrene.Having previously been transferred from hospital to local community hospital for in patient ‘re habilitation’ physio.Then sent back to A and E as non urgent case using patient transport resulting in hours of delay + triaged on arrival to suit.Then when eventually having caught on being transferred to an ordinary ward for lack of intensive care resources.Then fighting for your life without the support for the vital organs resulting in at least severe heart damage.Two months later then being sent home as a palliative case.
But look on the bright side that’s when the nature of the ulcers was found but too late to amputate because the organs now won’t stand the shock of the op and we need to ration what limited resources we have to the point of deciding who lives and who dies.So as to allow the CBI classes to maximise their profits and not have to spend them on health care for their employees whether working/unemployed/retired and their employees’ pre working age dependents etc etc.In the US they call it Private insurance based health care while here we call it the NHS.Strangely I’ve never heard of the above type of scenario in the case of the US system though.
Uh huh. And that happens every single time does it? Or is it actually much more common that they find out what’s wrong with you early and cure you and you’ve just made up an extreme case to try to justify yourself? Heres another scenario for you.
Woman is unwell. Lethargic, out of breath, cant walk from pain in chest and struggling to breath. Family call doctor who comes out and announces he wants her to go to hospital. He calls an ambulance which arrives 3 minutes later. 2 paramedics attend to patient then take her in ambulance to hospital where she is admitted, has tests run and is taken to a ward one level below intensive care. Tests are run, scans are taken over next 24 hours before family are called to announce patient has taken a severe downturn and been rushed to intensive care. Patient is diagnosed with pneumonia and spends 3 weeks in intensive care having tests and scans as well as 1 on 1 care by a nurse. Patient is eventually transferred back to the other ward where she spends a further 3 weeks of monitoring (including being on a ventilator) and then a week in a normal ward before a home report is done to assess her suitability to return home and then being released. Further follow up appoitments are also arranged. Patient is now in best health they have been
Total cost to patient for all that treatment- £0. Number of times she was asked for money to pay anything - 0. Number of bills she recieved which left her worrying how she would pay them - 0
I suppose, based on previous experience of when you get involved to this extent on a thread, its pointless pointing out to you that your entire scenario would have them at least trying to help and save you regardless of how much money you have or how big a donation you pay? O that it is also based on them actually at least trying to help you whilst in America it wouldnt even get beyond the front desk since youd be sent back out when they discovered you had no money to pay them?