[scotty79]

My life partner got for her brain tumor: brain surgery by one of the two top neurosurgeons in my city (0.7 mln population), radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy (linear accelerator lifetime dose, themozolmide 6 weeks), chemotherapy (themozolmide 6 months), mri checkup every 6 months. Everything fully covered by her basic state health insurance that costs you 50$ per month (rougly 10 pizzas) if you are not employed anywhere and you registerd your own company. Proportionally less if you are employed for less than 60% of average pay and more if for more. Costs you nothing if you are unemployed and registerd as unemployed or you have a husband or wife that is covered. You can also pay it out of your pocket if you don't feel like working or visiting unemployment office every few months to check there's still no work you could try. What is more it's nearly in full deductible directly from your tax so it costs you even less.

It's Poland so neurology ward was overcrowded and begged for renovation and radiotherapy mask was initially too tight, but we don't care, she was given two years and counting of full quality life witout any unnecessary burden on her, us and our families.

[gambiting]

I would never ever complain about the Polish healthcare. The oncology clinic in Warsaw was the one of the pioneers in treating GIST(rare type of stomach cancer) with then-new Glivec - Initially, my father has been given less than a year after being diagnosed with GIST. He has been alive and very well for over 8 years now after the diagnosis, having had two operations and taking a box of Glivec(~$3000 USD box) every month. The hospital even pays for his train tickets to Warsaw so he can get his medicine every month. He has never paid anything for his treatment, that's all national healthcare system. And yes, the waiting rooms get a bit crowded - who cares, he still gets the best cancer treatment in the country,for free.

As a kid, I always dreamed of living in America - now I wouldn't want to do it even if someone paid me to. Nope.