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What?s wrong with National Health Care?

English: U.S. Health Insurance Status (Under 65) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am born and raised in the United States, and grew up believing that American medicine and health care were the best in the world ? the gold standard. And if I had not lived outside of the US I might still believe that. Having left and then returned, I now see how bloated, expensive, and convoluted our whole system is.

While we lived in Turks and Caicos the government there implemented a National Health system, based on the UK system (TCI is a British territory), and we were amazed at how well it worked. We also had private health insurance through our employer, and between the two we paid nothing for health care or prescriptions. Basically, the private insurance would cover what National Health wouldn?t, and vice versa. This even included flying to Miami for care unavailable on the islands with hotel and a per diem.

Many of my friends who live in the UK and Canada use Aviva Health Insurance for the private health insurance, and find that between Aviva and National Health they are well covered for everything they need. To listen to the health care rhetoric in the US, you would think that under any kind of national health plan there would be no private insurance options, and that?s just plain wrong. In my experience, National Health offers a base level of care to everyone, and then people who can afford it have the option of buying more comprehensive private health plans.

It simply amazes me that people in the US are so adverse to any kind of government sponsored health insurance, when everyone over 65, no matter how much money they have, uses Medicare. Medicare offers a base level of care, and for those who want there is an option to buy extended or more comprehensive private health insurance to supplement Medicare. It?s that simple, the US government has been doing this successfully for years, and it can and will work on a larger scale with Obamacare.

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