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just don’t require any medical attention while you’re there, or, like, heat….

• xuki 4y ago
  Travel insurance is cheap.
  • scott_w 4y ago
    Doesn’t make a difference because you’ll not get a hospital bed
    • checker659 4y ago
      Why?
      • chanc3e 4y ago
        Nearly all A&E (ER) rooms are managed by the NHS. Private ones are few and far between so it’s likely that a tourist with insurance will end up in a standard A&E - which can have very long wait times[1]. The NHS is also using private clinics to help clear backlogs - so even private insurance can lead to a long time to see a consultant. Ambulances also do not have good response times. [1]https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/urgent-emergency-care/urgent-and-emergency-care-mythbusters https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/urgent-emergency-care/...
        • echelon 4y ago
          I hate to chime in with an ask, but does someone have a good read on healthcare in developed nations and mind commenting? I always hear and read complaints that the US doesn't have a single player public option for health insurance, and that it makes our country one of the worst. Other nations with "good health care" seem to pay their workers less, have higher taxes, have long wait times at the ER, weak militaries, etc. Something always seems to give. How would you rank and quantify the various medical systems of the world? Where does the US fall? Why, and how could we make it better? I'd like to be better informed about healthcare as a matter of policy and how it fits into the bigger scope of government spending.
          • 411111111111111 4y ago
            I think a lot of people aren't aware how greed as reduced the previously decently run healthcare systems in a lot of places. Germany for example had pretty decent healthcare 10 yrs ago, then a few regulations were passed and it's been doing downhill at a staggering pace. Nowadays hospitals prefer amputations over simple treatments in diabetes cases as a pretty well known example, as it's me profitable.
            • mcv 4y ago
              This is the big problem with healthcare in capitalism. If everything is about profit, then healthcare also becomes about profit, and hospitals will decide on treatment based on what's profitable to them, instead of what's better for the patient and for society. There's always going to be some trade-off of course, because resources are never infinite. But preventative healthcare is a lot cheaper and better for quality of life than waiting until limbs need to be lopped off.
            • nopinkglasses 4y ago
              And let's not even start about their 2-speed healthcare system, where the privately insured can get immediate specialist appointments while the pleb can join the back of the queue on the 6 month waiting list. Oh, the privately insured also get access to the hospital department head, and private rooms with a second bed in case relatives need to sleep over.
          • rich_sasha 4y ago
            In general, UK system is hands down great i think. Other countries may have even better ones perhaps, but none of the horrors of US. But in recent years, it's been struggling, certainly it wasn't high on the conservative govt funding list, and COVID caused extra burnout. Winters we're always tough, and this one is thought to be especially so. It is unclear to me if it is a lack of money or poor spending.
          • CogitoCogito 4y ago
            > Other nations with "good health care" seem to pay their workers less, have higher taxes, have long wait times at the ER, weak militaries, etc. Are these conclusions based upon some sort of systematic analysis of yours?
• spaceman_2020 4y ago
  pack an extra suitcase with wood pellets and you're good to go :D