Quote lionarmour87="lionarmour87"I'm here for personal reasons,our Lass is a yank and disabled,but god forbid!if curcumstances changed, then I would come back home ,I still pat income tax on my pensions to GB by choice.I took out a 6 month insurance policy,but it didnt include DR visits etc it I think it was just an emergency policy and it wasn't cheap.I qualify for state pension in 6 weeks so I need to take another look round,I am told I can buy into medicare ,but its expensive,I dont know how expensive I think medicare is like national insurance,but you dont get medicare till state pension age.I cross the very busy Baltimore pike when I go to the mall and I commented "if someone gets knocked over by traffic ,does the ambulance feel for their wallet before their pulse?".You have to be dirt poor before you get free treatment.Obama care comes in in two years for the uninsured'"
I would imagine that the insurance would be roughly the same in the UK if a 50-something wanted to take out cover for everything with, say, BUPA, its not going to be cheap.
A couple of decades ago I was running a business with a chap who had no kidney function left, he had three afternoons a week off on a kidney machine (we adjusted the salary take
), and it being the late eighties we'd get frequent calls from the fledgling private health insurance companies, it was the new buzz-word, apparently you simply HAD to have private health cover as a badge of office because the NHS was rubbish (so they said) and we'd always play along with the sales people on the phone, showing interest in insuring all our workforce etc.
Just as they started to put the documents in an envelope to post I'd put Michael on "He has a few questions but he is one of the directors and will be making the decision", he'd ask in a very innocent voice if a person with no kidneys could still be covered, sometimes the phone line would just go dead, other times they'd persevere and exclude him but try and get him to still sign up for everyone else, "If you think I'm paying for these fookers when I can't be covered etc etc".
We even in all seriousness tried to get him cover that would exclude anything related to his kidney complaint but they just didn't want to know him, he was damaged goods and uninsurable, thats what convinced me that private health insurance companies actually don't give a s[ihit[/i about you as a person, in fact as a person liable to catch diseases you're a bloody nuisance to them, your money on the other hand is very welcome...
), and it being the late eighties we'd get frequent calls from the fledgling private health insurance companies, it was the new buzz-word, apparently you simply HAD to have private health cover as a badge of office because the NHS was rubbish (so they said) and we'd always play along with the sales people on the phone, showing interest in insuring all our workforce etc.
.Over the Christmas period we have had every film version of "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"and ive been talking to people in the local bar they said" oh how bad it was in Britain then,"I said yes and remember Britain was the most powerful nation on Earth with the largest Empire ,and to think of all the unequality,they say the gap between rich and poor is wider now in Britain than in those days,but thanks to writers like Dickens and the new socialist movement things did get better in the following 100years".If you send me statistics and facts and figures,please make them easy for me?
