[lilsunnybee]

You smug bastard. Joking, but i'm in the US and have had so many issues in my life with huge medical bills and debt collectors, denial of care, insurance refusing to pay because a doctor messed up the paperwork, insurance not covering certain medications, or saying the dosage needed to be changed, that i'm almost not. :-p

[arethuza]

Well, as anyone will tell you who lives in the UK, the NHS isn't perfect, but I personally happen to think that the model we have of a pretty good health care system for everyone and private health care for the tiny minority who want it seems to work fairly well.

Mind you the NHS is socialism... but perhaps telling that the founder of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan, called his book on the subject In Place of Fear - which sums it up really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan

NB I find illnesses and injuries in a family stressful enough to deal with as it is - adding bureaucracy and financial stresses would be a nightmare.