Comments on: Health Care Reform http://www.eurobamablog.com/2009/06/16/health-care-reform/ Following the Obama Administration from Europe. Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:37:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Zhana21 http://www.eurobamablog.com/2009/06/16/health-care-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Zhana21 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:37:13 +0000 http://www.eurobamablog.com/?p=544#comment-121 Living as I do in the UK, I am very appreciative of the NHS. It is far from perfect, vastly overstretched and under-resourced. But we could do far worse than to use it as a model. <br><br>I was born and grew up on the States and I am well aware that the cost of healthcare there does not correspond with high quality of treatment. <br><br>Mind you, while I was at the Accident and Emergency department of my local hospital a couple of weeks ago waiting for treatment, I was speaking with a young woman from Holland who told me that the quality of their healthcare is far superior to that available here in Britain. But everyone has to pay a set amount of money every week to keep it going and keep it operating at its high standard. Are Americans ready to adopt that system? Living as I do in the UK, I am very appreciative of the NHS. It is far from perfect, vastly overstretched and under-resourced. But we could do far worse than to use it as a model.

I was born and grew up on the States and I am well aware that the cost of healthcare there does not correspond with high quality of treatment.

Mind you, while I was at the Accident and Emergency department of my local hospital a couple of weeks ago waiting for treatment, I was speaking with a young woman from Holland who told me that the quality of their healthcare is far superior to that available here in Britain. But everyone has to pay a set amount of money every week to keep it going and keep it operating at its high standard. Are Americans ready to adopt that system?

]]> By: Zhana21 http://www.eurobamablog.com/2009/06/16/health-care-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Zhana21 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:37:13 +0000 http://www.eurobamablog.com/?p=544#comment-92 Living as I do in the UK, I am very appreciative of the NHS. It is far from perfect, vastly overstretched and under-resourced. But we could do far worse than to use it as a model. <br><br>I was born and grew up on the States and I am well aware that the cost of healthcare there does not correspond with high quality of treatment. <br><br>Mind you, while I was at the Accident and Emergency department of my local hospital a couple of weeks ago waiting for treatment, I was speaking with a young woman from Holland who told me that the quality of their healthcare is far superior to that available here in Britain. But everyone has to pay a set amount of money every week to keep it going and keep it operating at its high standard. Are Americans ready to adopt that system? Living as I do in the UK, I am very appreciative of the NHS. It is far from perfect, vastly overstretched and under-resourced. But we could do far worse than to use it as a model.

I was born and grew up on the States and I am well aware that the cost of healthcare there does not correspond with high quality of treatment.

Mind you, while I was at the Accident and Emergency department of my local hospital a couple of weeks ago waiting for treatment, I was speaking with a young woman from Holland who told me that the quality of their healthcare is far superior to that available here in Britain. But everyone has to pay a set amount of money every week to keep it going and keep it operating at its high standard. Are Americans ready to adopt that system?

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