Please see **1/25/2010 Database Outage**-thx

I think it is telling that so many people who can easily afford to buy private health insurance here don't, because they know they will get excellent treatment on the NHS.

When I looked into the cost of BUPA a few years ago I simply couldn't afford it on top of a mortgage. I think a basic package was about £180 a month. Now because of my age and having been a smoker for most of my life (gave up 2 1/2 years ago) it would still be very expensive.

Quite often the same consultants who you see privately also work in NHS hospitals, so you still get the best care available as you say. I think most people who use health insurance do so because when you are very ill it's much nicer to be seen quicker, and have your own room in a private hospital with a dedicated nurse, compared to being in an NHS ward.

I've had 3 NHS hand ops and I certainly have no complaints, although they were all done in the day surgery unit, which didn't require an overnight stay.

@SJ - Sorry to hear of your experiences, sad reading.

Late edit - The Prime Minister has been on Twitter! Twitter NHS

Greed seems to be behind this as I've been watching CNN(TV), PC restart in a minute.

That's over, I had to reinstall the AV after a sudden update that had the tray icon stop working.

Its somewhere between Doctors and parts of the Health Insurance industry as they said there is about $8000 spent per person and at 300 million people in the US per year that's 2.4 Trillion dollars, CNN mentioned cutting healthcare costs in half would save $1.2 Trillion a Year, Now there's an incentive to keep the status quo If ever there was one. Money and lots of It too.

Anyone have any experience's with "Back Clinics"? I am going to start treatments soon and was hoping someone could relate their experience's, be they positive or negative, so I'll know more about what to expect. This is supposed to be the most successful clinic in Canada. It has been featured on a number of investigative news programs, so far it has proven to be a legitimate place, so I'm not worried about this being a fraudulent scheme in any way,I'm just curious of any results other than the reports of success that you find in the waiting rooms.
;-p

Pentagon

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