health insurance
By kaleegirl45
@kaleegirl45 (1515)
United States
May 8, 2009 1:23pm CST
hello everyone, I know it's been a long time since I've been here. I'm been busy with my school work. I do have to say that I think of all you. Now I have a question for everyone. I have some question to answer on my school work, who has Universal Health care? and how do you like it? what are the pro and cons with this type of insurance? I'm off to my class to answer more question. I really appreicated your answers. Take care and hugs to all of you
2 responses
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
9 May 09
Hi kaleegirl,
I hope you will be able to get answers for that inquiries...I can't help you with that...Enjoy and I guess a lot of us are taking a break from here due to other stuff we are doing!
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@kaleegirl45 (1515)
• United States
9 May 09
Hi checapricorn,
thank you for you help, i know everyone get busy within a certain time. i have until monday. So hopeful I'll get a couple of answer before than. thank you for your response.
@Boffle (123)
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8 May 09
I'm in the UK, where we have a universal health care system called the National Health Serivce (NHS). The main advantage of the NHS is that it's free (although, of course, the money to pay for it ultimately comes from taxes). That means that no-one is ever left without any treatment at all - so it acts as a safety net for people who wouldn't be able to pay for insurance. But there are disdvantages too: the main one is that, if lots of people want to have the same treatment at once, you might have to wait. This tends not to happen if you have a serious illness, but with something minor you might have to wait a few days before you get to see a doctor. Because of that drawback, lots of people in the UK have private medical insurance as well, so they use the NHS for emergency treatment or for treating serious illnesses, and pay out of their insurance for more trivial treatments or for things they want - but don't need - to have done.
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