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If you were sick would you be better off in the U.S or the U.K.?

Posted by nyceve on July 24, 2008 - 2:41pm

Our health care system is in critical condition.

It is difficult if not impossible for Americans in less than optimal health and even many healthy ones, to find affordable, individual coverage. Health-related costs are the leading cause for personal bankruptcy in the United States.

This morning NPR told the stories of two patients with multiple sclerosis, Linda Oatley lives in Buckland England, Jeffrey Rubin lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Linda, like all residents of the United Kingdom, is covered under one form or another of the NHS. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999, but unlike her brethrem in the United States, she did not have to file for bankruptcy or lose her home because she had the misfortune to get sick.

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