Socialized Medicine

[Tom Joad]

Would you trade?

[Zan de Man]

I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous answer.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Zan de Man

I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous answer.

OK, OK I screwed up a poll again.

Don't rub it in.

[donquixote99]

The poll is not well-formed. Two separate questions to two separate populations should not be crammed into one poll.

Being old and increasingly feeble I of course prefer the government taking care of everything.

[Neko]

I live in a country where healthcare is part socialised and part paid for by insurance, and it's pretty good.

[potter]

I think I prefer the French system

[sarmajor]

Like Neko I also live in a country (half a world apart) where health care is half private and half socialised.

Personally I pay private health insurance but there is always a good (but never perfect) public health system available for those who cannot afford to pay to go private

[Neko]

Here it's kind of complicated. Every treatment has a fixed percentage of the price that'll be paid by government, and the rest is made up by the patient himself or his insurance. Most insurance is mutualised, though, so the costs are nowhere near as high as in the US, and they're less likely to try to skip out of paying for stuff.

[sarmajor]

Originally Posted by Neko

Here it's kind of complicated. Every treatment has a fixed percentage of the price that'll be paid by government, and the rest is made up by the patient himself or his insurance. Most insurance is mutualised, though, so the costs are nowhere near as high as in the US, and they're less likely to try to skip out of paying for stuff.

It is pretty much the same here in Australia