Obama Care / Social Medicine / Company Plan

I'm on a company plan. So far, an excluded medication was declined but given my medical circumstances, they are trying to work it out. My coverage includes concierge services to help with log jams. The worst problem I had was the provider pharmacy. I had so many repetitive mistakes they filed a formal complaint. Typical high level decision makers deal. They ink an awesome partnership forgetting the training to make it work. I've never had avacate service before. I hope every kind of medical will start providing avacate teams for members after surgery and complicated medical problems. When we become medically incapacitated, we don't have the strength to avacate medications and services until we get stronger.

Very interesting. So the healthcare was better with the republican government or are they all just crappy? Canadian elections were yesterday and we now have a Liberal government. Health care funding is supposedly better with the Liberals so we're going to have to see!

This is an interesting thread for those living outside of America. Here in the UK our health service is free at the point of entry. In truth it's paid for out of taxes. As well as income tax we pay a national insurance premium, which is supposed to cover our healthcare. I don't pay anything for my prescriptions and I've never had to pay anything for all the care I've had over the many years of my injury. I get a voucher every five years for a wheelchair. But the good old health services is buckling under the strain of an overpopulated country. It wasn't designed for the amount of people that we have a living here. Our health service is free to the whole of Europe. With free movement of people across Europe, families are moving to the UK in their millions. Many come from poorer countries, such as Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania. It is estimated that we have over 4 million Eastern Europeans living in the country now, all of them with growing families. The NHS just cannot cope. It is hard to get a doctor's appointment and the hospitals are full up. Spinal Units are creaking under the strain. It is interesting that this thread seems to be more about politics than it is about healthcare, whether it's Obama care, the Republicans, or the NHS and Europe. Immigration from Europe and the swelling numbers of Eastern Europeans are just one reason that Brits voted to leave the European Union. Not only has our health service been diminished, but our social housing cannot cope with the numbers and neither can our schools. An Eastern European with a family who has just come into the country is more likely to get a local government owned house (a council house) before an indigenous British person with less children. We have to provide interpreters at doctors surgeries, hospitals and schools. It all adds to the cost. I still regard myself as lucky to live in a country where my healthcare is free but sometimes that healthcare seems like it's coming from 1/3 world country.  This is not a racist rant.  This is looking at a diminished health service and trying to explain reasons why it is not what it was.  We we are a small island but we are sinking under a tide of migrants.  Having said that, a couple of my carers come from Lithuania.  Interestingly they both own houses in Lithuania which are rented out.  Both of them also have council houses here in the UK.  Technically speaking you have to be homeless to get a council house.  The whole system needs an overhaul.  But it is just too huge.  The NHS is massive and almost impossible to streamline.  Around 10% of our GDP is spent on health. Total health spending in England was around £129 billion in 2018/19 and is expected to rise to nearly £134 billion by 2019/20.  Remember this is just England.  We have Wales and Scotland to factor in as well.

I had good health care when I got SCI. The doctors I had were not good. Now that I am disabled and on social security, I can't get care. I'm lucky to have an internal medicine doctor who manages my care. Is it ideal? No. But at least I have one -- count my blessings.

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