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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (5020)	2/27/2008 2:13:00 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Read the nuances in the NHS policy.....as I understand it, they won't allow you to pay privately for additional treatment they reject that is part of a treatment for a condition the NHS does pay for.... The woman in question was going to get two other intravenous drug treatments for her cancer that would have been covered. I don't agree with it either and it apparently generated enough attention that the NHS folded.. "But when you have "single payer", then one organization gets to make the decision. " Your insurance company makes that decision here...that's one organization. You're free to pay privately for something else, but I wonder if you pay for a private treatment that harms you, would they have a case not to pay to treat the harm, particularly if there were dangers they warned you of.. I paid for an endoscopic stitching procedure FDA approved but considered experimental due to lack of enough clinical data....I was given a 50% price bread by the company that made the instrument being used and tested. BTW, the procedure failed.