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To: aladin who wrote (48916)	10/2/2002 11:36:53 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 281500

Relative health costs. UK vs USA It's a most interesting. I have two set of statistics I am happy with (for accuracy), I just have to understand them better. cms.hhs.gov society.guardian.co.uk (Our health bill is going up over 50%, no need to worry though, us British are so wealthy we hardly notice the difference not -ng-) All I can say is I find the cost of everything here crushing compared to costs in the USA. That includes health care. Those graphs are missing something, maybe some big wealth "knock on" effect that is missing, I'll ponder on it. On a personal health note here. We have two kids, one born in the UK with National health, the other in the USA with health Insurance. Unfortunately I was not at home when the first one was delivered in the UK. My wife was told she had just imagined her waters had broke and given a sleeping sedative and told to go back to sleep. The nursing staff were adamant against any protest otherwise. She went into labor still under the immediate effect of the drug. Luckily she is one of those woman who have less trouble delivering babies though (relatively speaking... i.e. amongst women -g-) so it worked out in the end. The second was born in the USA, and I was lucky enough to be there. Very impressed with the care. ps: I hope it goes ok for your wife. She is in the best place for treatment for sure