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An American friend of mine came here to tour the country on a motorbike. She was knocked off it, and someone called an ambulance. She refused it, saying her insurance wouldn't cover it. The ambulance man told her to shut up and get in. When she got to the hospital they said they'd check her out first, if it looked like being expensive they'd have a think and discuss it with her. Nothing nasty was found so she was sent on her way rejoicing. As a taxpayer who paid for all that, I'm fine with it.
Your would have travel insurance so they wouldn’t have to worry.
@@lunluong4235 This was a while ago and she was a student. I suspect she'd paid the absolute minimum, goodness knows what the conditions were then!
What? In many other european countries she would have not spend an euro even if she needed an heart transplant...
The tax rate to pay for the NHS doesn't come even close to the amount people pay for health insurance, and they then have the additional costs to the insurance company or hospital when they actually need care. Hands off our NHS!
As an American, I would fight to stop such an NHS in our country. This involuntary large tax that leads to rationed care. Quality of care is also a reality when only paid a small fee for a treatment regardless of the complexity. Truly talented people will work where get paid fairly and thus would not go down the road of being a Doctor. In the US prices are very high, but that is why people work places that cover most of the cost. Not everyone is that fortunate, but life is not fair and I will not pay for others who make bad choices. Communism or Dictatorships sound great but the reality is far different from the ideology. Before you want to roast me with untrue statements like not rationing or being free...Please at least be honest. If I need a knee surgery I can get it when I need it. Under rationalized health care, I could not surgery for years. If I could get the benefits of NHS without the consequences of NHS economics.....I would love it.
@@cdbttc8646 There is always the option of private medical care in addition to the NHS.
@@cdbttc8646 The biggest insurance provider for healthcare in the US is called GoFundMe 🤣🤣🤣. Please explain to everyone why the US is the ONLY country in the developed world that does NOT give it's citizens universal coverage. Please explain how every other country in the developed world has managed to figure something out. Please also explain how the vast majority of these countries that offer universal coverage for all it's citizens from birth to death also consistently outperform the US healthcare in terms of metrics like quality of care, wait times are shorter, less litigation for malpractice, longer lifespans, far lower infant mortality whilst simultaneously doing it for a fraction of the cost to the end user.
I thank my lucky stars every day I was not born in the USA!
Even going privately in UK is massively less than the cost in USA
@@helenagreenwood2305 My mother (86) has just had two cataract operations. She decided to go private and went to a wonderful hospital on the edge of Cardiff. In her words: she can afford to go private to allow the NHS to treat those that can't afford to go private. It cost her slightly under £7k for both eyes, and she thinks it was well worth it. My wife's cousin moved to the USA (just outside Chicago) about five years ago. He had a single cataract op and it cost him personally $3k. But his company insurance paid out the remaining $19k.
5yrs ago I was admitted to hospital in LA with heat exhaustion, ambulance called went into A&E put on saline drip for 3 hrs, after doing the paper work I was discharged, the total bill was $6700 fortunately my business insurance paid all of it. The invoice included something like $100 to empty the waste bin, only in America !!!
WOW,……Just WOW (esp the 🗑bit) 🤔💭💭💭 😠😡🤔
Mon Dieu, c'est absurde.
Saint Aneurin Bevan. Saved lives and continues to do so. A hero of the highest order.
Nye Bevan would be horrified at what successive UK governments have done to the NHS.
I like "shut the fridge" girl. She's so expressive.
I thought it was very restrained of her - I know a much ruder versii on !
I asked what the justification for the charge for skin on skin contact was and I was disgusted, the reason I was told was because it was supported by a nurse, and therefore chargeable, Honestly I think that's dispicable.
... because it is.
Just unbelievable !
As per a comment I made elsewhere - it's (usually, at least) specifically for skin-on-skin contact in the Operating Room immediately after a C-section, and the additional nurse to facilitate this is to ensure that the drugged, bleeding mother doesn't drop the baby, and that this is done in a safe way given that she is still to be closed up after the operation.
@@nickjeffery536 how does that make any difference at all? thing is we think the american system is awful, with people not going to hospital because they can't afford it and documented cases of people dying because they were fired and lost their medical insurance, its just wrong. It is the primary reason when I lived in the states I chose not to stay and moved back to the uk for good.
@@roundtheloopandback I'm not saying that it's right as such... being in the UK, the idea of paying for treatment in general is weird to me... Just saying that, in the context of the US system of for-profit healthcare, adding extra complications and an additional nurse to the operating theatre does sound more like a justified chargeable item than simply "holding the baby" does.
Great reaction Amanda, thanks to the NHS I had heart failure in 2019 , 2 electro cardio grams, 1 echo cardio gram and 1 MRI, multiple blood tests, about 16 in total to adjust my medication which costs me £32 for a certificate which gets me all my medication for 3 months. Plus I had 3 month off work on 3 quarter pay . So thank you NHS, and thank you to the people who don't mind paying into it because it helps everyone.
hey Amanda. I have a US business associate that got knocked off his motorbike near LA. Is lucky to be alive after he spent 3 months in hospital with a broken pelvis and wrist plus a collapsed lung. His medical bill was just over $1.6m. His insurance will cover just over $1m of this but that leaves him with over $500k to find. He's having to sell everything he owns, we've fund raised for him but he may still be made bankrupt! 😒
No wonder there are so many skid rows in American cities then. How many are there that have gone bankrupt and had no option but to go on the streets. Americans say they are druggies and some go there because they want to drop out of society and bills etc. Are Americans really that stupid to beleive that the majority of them go on skid rows because they want to??????
In the US, you can actually call the billing department at hospitals and asked to be put on a monthly payment plan, I had surgery, after my insurance paid their share, I called the hospital and started a monthly payment plan of $100.00 a monthly to pay it off.
@@marydavis5234 and in Europe, you wouldn't have to.
Land of the free is bullshit, you have to be brave to tolerate big pharma setting political policies. If he was knocked off, the third party involved should be responsible for all involved costs.
Healthcare costs is the leading form of bankruptcy in the US.
I had a heart attack a couple of years ago, I was rushed into hospital in Bristol (South West England) where I had open heart surgery - a triple bypass. I was in hospital for 10 days then had follow-up treatment for six months. Everything was paid for by the NHS. Universal healthcare should be the priority of all civilised countries - it's what we pay our taxes for.
Hope all is well now with you now Simon?
I erased my rant, because what's the point. I'd be just saying what everyone is feeling and sharing. I am a proud Canadian, who has benefited from the same great health care system. Does it come out of our taxes, yes. A small price to contribute to the wellbeing of others. I'm happy to do my part so that others can get the help they need. One should not fear getting help. One should not have to sacrifice everything they own to bring a child into the world. And one should NEVER have to pay even a cent to hold their newborn child!
As a Brit, I have always been totally at home with the idea of paying for the NHS via taxes to have it there when I need it. And it isn't only reactive care. My doctor sends out texts to remind me to come and have regular blood tests and blood pressure checks, ans tells me off about being overweight - proactive care to keep me healthy. I view the system as being beneficial to everyone. If you are ill and cured, you go back to work and pay your taxes to help pay for the system that cured you!
I'm always reminded of Dick Turpin in the 18th century, the famous Highwayman. His reputed challenge was "stand and deliver: your money or your life!" So it's highway robbery. That's exactly what private medical insurance demands: your money or your life. Cue the Adam Ant video.
shout out to royal brompton in chelsea they performed my heart by pass last year (through the NHS). amazing people. and thank you dosnt seem enough.
I've recently started taking Amgevita injections for inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis, the annual cost for this treatment in the US is about $40,000 in the UK it costs the NHS £3,550 for the year for the exact same product.
that is why private health/ big pharma lobbies the tories to get rid of the NHS... so they can charge that here
US pharmacy companies price gouge.
@@julianaylor4351 Davis is lying,I take the same meds he does and I’m in the US and the total cost is $500.00 a month before your insurance pays their part and my monthly pay is $150.00 a month.
@@marydavis5234 But you still have to pay $1800 pa out of pocket Dave does not! Also "Yesterday, "2nd Feb 2023, Amgen announced that it would launch the U.S.'s first marketed Humira-referenced biosimilar, Amjevita (adalimumab-atto), at two different list prices: $3,288 and $1,557 per 40 mg pen device for a two-week supply" maybe he was using their prices looks like you got a deal huh.
@@marydavis5234 Maybe he has a bad health insurance deal, if so directing to a better provider, otherwise you are probably right. Some people can be very strange, about some things.
Here in Denmark, (and other scandinavian countries, I think) we pay for health service over the taxes, which I think is the best way, although you have to pay for dental services up front, which can be fextremely expensive.
Out of all the "Taxes" on the planet... "Healthcare" is the best and the one worth paying... even more than an Army.
Here in the UK, our government has been obliterating our healthcare system in a attempt to make it fail (Conservatives) and advocate an American system. Yet medical Taxes in relation to cost has gone up and the numbers using the healthcare are similar to when it first started 70 years ago. The maths just don't add up.
They keep talking out their rears, when they keep stating that Obesity, Alcohol and Smoking is reducing the life expediency of the average Brit... So they must charge a fortune in specific taxes to cover the treatment costs... yet it's publicly calculatable that the specific taxes are more than 4 times higher than the cost... all whilst they keep raising the pension age stating "Everyone is living longer". They are absolutely corrupt as hell.
I can say right now that not only will we not allow them to succeed... we will go after them like the criminals they are.
@@babalonkie You should become an MP and then propose bills to fix everything. Good luck!
@@mojojojo11811 MP's should be in it for the job and not the money. Lead by example. Have extreme patience. Capability and knowledge. Tolerance. And have the nation not their friends, other countries or their wallets as the priority.
If they do not fulfil every single one of those criteria, they should be removed BY LAWS and not manipulated elections.
I fail at a couple of those so i will never apply to be a MP.
Same in the UK.
@@babalonkie smoking, obesity and alcohol do cause premature death. Pretty obvious. The taxes also don't cover anywhere near your medical costs. The medication alone is outrageous thanks to medical companies charging extortionate rates. Care in ICU during Covid cost a fortune, health care professionals pay, etc. Also only a small percentage of your taxes go into health care, while at least a fifth of the population don't work, while many get benefits, also paid for by taxes. Sorry but you clearly have nothing by way of proof or any investigation done into the facts. Try asking a nurse first before making silly comments. Also it isn't just the Conservatives, but even so, the public keep voting Conservative, currently because they love Boris and love backing Brexit, despite no improvement on our lives, only made worse.
Within 10 days of my birth I was in hospital for an operation to correct a bowel problem. Our family at the time, was penniless. Had there been any sort of charge in place, I guess I would never have made it. Like to think I've contributed to society and have led a full and successful life. Without the NHS, that just wouldn't have happened.
Thank you so much to the NHS and all the workers involved.
The NHS is amazing, and I know that personally, because my wife put her life on the line, caring for Covid-19 patients, and then spent 10 days in intensive care, fighting for her life, when she contracted Covid-19 pneumonia.
She survived, but had 'long Covid' for over a year, and is still not 100% recovered, but that has not stopped her from returning to the NHS!
Yes, we all pay National Insurance, but medical costs in the USA are bonkers!
Kevin, please pass along my heartfelt thanks and best wishes to your wonderful wife. I hope she fully recovers soon.
I love the NHS and yes I have used healthcare in US, while skiing n Colorado felt ill for days was given 'oxygen therapy' as it was called (half an hour on oxygen at clinic as I had altitude sickness) - $1800 pls. Thank goodness I was able to claim back on my holiday ski insurance. The local clinic said we don't recognise this insurer so I had to pay or go to Denver, so I just got the plastic out and claimed back later. So not only do you have to be well insured just make sure you illness/accident takes place somewhere near your insurance carrier. I love Scotland and the rest of the UK for healthcare. Vive the NHS
Nhs have been brilliant to me amanda .if i was living in america i would probably be dead with what i have ..good vid again ❤😘😘
At 18 I was stung by a bee, an ambulance was needed and I was so close to dying, I have since needed a minimum of two epipens a year, once I was too far (by road) for a conventional ambulance and an air ambulance was called, I'd used both epipens but it wasn't enough in the time it would take to get to hospital, so now I carry 4 epipens at all times and christ knows how much the air ambulance would charge here, I Daren't think what it would cost in the US, but I like living and this is why I have never been to the US and never will go unless they do something about the disgraceful health care they have but also the mentality of so many about not wanting to pay for others care, so selfish.
Agreed, but must say as a Brit you can buy annual travel insurance for under £200. This as I found on one holiday to Chicago was amazing. After spending a week in a private hospital, a private room, multiple nurses and a surgeon, I paid absolutely nothing. My insurance with Direct Line covered it all, about £100k, though I had cover for up to £1m. Don't let the cost of US healthcare put you off of having a holiday. I hope you make the decision to go. ❤
@@parkerlings Hi, thanks for this, it's very much appreciated :)
Just getting over Bowel Cancer from a year ago ,just cannot thank the NHS enough , 3 of my family work for them too , God bless em .And it didnt cost me anything x
Forgot to mention the two free heart attacks ..Oops !
I live in Australia & I'd like to thank Gough Whitlam for Medicare.
Here in the states the common excuse against the NHS is that you end up paying for it in your taxes. But what those people don't understand is when everyone pays the cost goes down. So not only is the cost lower, it's spread out over time. I know I'd rather pay more taxes and feel secure that the next time a car hits me on my bicycle I'm not going to get stuck with another $30k in bills. Having healthcare as a government service would make so many peoples lives better.
The vast majority of the UK population pay 13,8% towards National Insurance. This covers your healthcare (except eyes and dental) and your pension from the state when you reach retirement age.
There are no co-pays, deductibles or any of the additional costs you pay in the US on top of your insurance premium. Prescriptions cost £9,65 in England (free in Scotland). Prescriptions for live saving medication is free. If you are over 60 it's also free.
I would love to know how much most Americans pay as a percentage of their paycheck for health insurance (that doesn't fully cover them). I'll bet it's more than 13,8% (and no pension).
If you don't have a middle man, ie the insurance company, the cost will also go down. The American system seems to be designed to make money for the Insurance companies as well as Big Pharma and everyone else involved, not to give the best possible healthcare to everyone.
The amount we pay from our taxes is just not noticeable.
If you take into account the amount of tax we pay for the nhs it is dwarfed by what americans pay for insurance, the above is correct.
The amount we pay towards the NHS is really peanuts and we don't really notice it.
As a Brit living in America, I had a heart ablation out here, luckily I had insurance and paid 5 grand, without it would've cost me 45 grand
Cherish the NHS and use your vote to stop it's privatisation.
I feel the same, Amanda. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
I'm in Australia, the new Royal Adelaide hospital was where I was sent for a diabetic foot infection. I went to A&E and within an hour I had been seen, not by a registrar but by a specialist and was admitted to a bed. Every patient in the RAH had a single room, about the size of an average motel room. I was in there over the next 3 months a total of 64 days. In 3 times for 3 amputations. I was able to choose my meals at all times from a choice of 4 or 5 dishes, obviously adhering to dietary needs. Over that time the only cost to me was for the taxis home, and I lived less than 2km away and scripts. As an aged pensioner the medicines were subsidised and the taxis were half price. I was treated for most of the time like I was in a 5 Star hotel. This hospital for a time the most expensive in the world at $2.5 Billion, I believe it has since been overtaken. All this for the levy of 2% of income paid with taxes, so it's not really noticed. And as a pensioner I don't pay taxes and therefore no levy. All this while at the same time Covid-19 was at its height.
I'd have bled to death aged 4 after falling through a window. Thanks NHS!
Sister would have lived but I'm 99% certain the childhood home I grew up in an amazing neighborhood would have become a small appartement instead.
At birth my younger sister had some issues and needed multiple operations.
I remember watching another reaction to this and they pointed out that in American films, you always see people being bundled into the back of cars to be taken to the hospital. And I never thought its because an ambulance is so expensive and they don't know there insurance situation.
"Who says you can't put a price on life?" We certainly do. We have a system which gladly exchanges tens of thousands of human lives for profit. I am very jealous of anyone with access to the NHS or similar programs. My wife and I have literally had to consider choosing between a plane ticket to a civilized country, or bankruptcy, and for what is actually a fairly simple procedure. Luckily the situation resolved itself, so we weren't forced to spend the money on either, but millions aren't that fortunate.
Dont get me wrong, Im not a violent person, in fact I hate violence, but how in the flying f are your governmental buildings still standing? In Poland we would blow the parliamentary building for only a small portion of the issues you have in the US.
@@bohomazdesign725 Bruh ... there's a reason there's a stereotype "americans are dumb" ... they're told that they live in the greatest nation on earth, and their education does nothing to challenge that - telling them next to nothing about how other countries live.
So, when a minimum wage worker has to call their friends to find someone to cover their shift when they're so sick they can't get out of bed, that's just normal to them.
@@bohomazdesign725 It's even worse than the other reply to you makes it seem. It's not just that we don't burn down the govt. buildings. It's that literally millions of proudly ignorant American hogs are out here actively fighting against any kind of 'communist' healthcare, even though it means for once they would actually be getting something valuable in return for their tax dollars. The capitalist propaganda in this country is the most effective mind-control ever implemented in human history.
When it came to the childbirth section, I couldn't help imagining the 'gas & air' being on one of those meters like you see at garages for inflating tyres - 'insert 20p for 30s of use'
I wonder how much Steve Austin's medical bill would cost now in todays money? He would be the "6 Billion" dollar man 😂
hahaha
Wow, this was insane. Even you looked shocked Amanda & you had an idea of what was coming.
Everyone knows the US costs are ridiculous for treatment and ambulance etc. The hidden cost in the US is the price of prescriptions. Even if you pay for prescriptions in the UK, the prices are nothing as compared to the US.
As I'm soon about to find out.
I want to thank the British public and the NHS that gave me the chance to have my babies at home.. my first was born after midnight on a very snowy night, it had been snowing for a week and lots of midwives couldn't get to the hospitals so the community midwives were being brought into the hospitals to make up the staff.. amazingly I still had two Midwives come to me to help me deliver..
Truth is the cost of having my baby would have been so much more on the NHS the moment I would enter a hospital. The risk goes up too..
My second was born around shift change on a Summer morning so I saw four with my second !
All in all I still saved the NHS money by wanting to deliver my babies at home.
God bless our NHS , we must protect it , it is worth more than gold ❤
$40 to hold your own baby.....so much for "the land of the free" 🤣
I had a look into the real cost of my Epilepsy meds. It was around $8 a packet (I go through 2 a month). From Epilepsy groups I’ve been a part of, I’ve heard of Americans paying $300-$900 a month for the same thing. It’s all a money making con.
Australians as shocked as UK citizens.
Imagine how much the Royal Flying Doctor service would cost in USA.
It's so horrible to think that if you're injured or ill you'll have to put off going to the hospital till your next payday (if you're not insured)
Might not be the next payday. If you are lucky enough to earn $15 per hour or $600 a week and to see a doctor could be as much as $300 or $400 if uninsured. Then add on medicine. You probably couldn't do that the next payday.
Stephen Hawkins one of the greatest minds of our time, would have died in the US or been bankrupt to add to his problems and stress, fortunately he was born in UK and was helped throughout his life by the NHS.
I heard an American say they pay less tax though. What they should do is work out how much tax they pay how much health insurance they pay how much excess they pay and add that together
Now who’s better off? When Americans are young, they don’t realise what it’s going to cost as they get older. I need more medical care and their insurance goes up. I’d be dead without the NHS
Yes our NHS is wonderful, as are the staff. The big problem at the moment is the lack of aftercare at home, which means a third of beds are blocked up by those able to go home if they had support!!!!
I'm originally from Stirling District and every village had it's own District nurse who was even given their own house and would give aftercare to everyone needing it!
Absolutely jaw dropping costs. I never knew 😮
Hi Amanda, everyone knows someone here who has had a medical emergency and we all pay through taxes to cover for each other.
It seems astonishing that people would be content that the sick person would be faced with a bill. Such a system seems to be based on the idea that, ah well if they can't afford it, bad luck (despite them living without the advantages of income and living conditions).
It's not astonishing it's downright barbaric, but that's the USA for you. They don't care about anyone other than themselves and their government doesn't care about them either.
I had a hernia operation in Thailand. It cost me as a foreigner with no insurance 80,000 TH Bhat, about 1,800 pounds at the time. They did it in just over a week from when I saw the consultant. If I had been Thai it would have cost about 50,000 TH Bhat with no insurance. It did include one night in hospital and food. That was in a goverment hospital.
Great video and and funny as ever Amanda! I recently did a nine hour shift in the A&E at our local hospital and they were brilliant. How much would that have cost!
My father is going in for surgery for a double cervical disc herniation (not too sure if I wrote that correctly or if it's the correct English translation) on Monday. He is staying in a patient hotel for 3 days. The surgery he's getting would cost between $20-50 000 on it's own. Luckily, we live in Norway and the only potential expense he has is gas, which he can apply to get covered as well.
This is bad enough but what about if a loved one has an accident, taken to hospital but then they die of their injuries. Can you imagine being shell shocked, heartbroken with grief then getting a bill for thousands of dollars? I just can’t wrap my head around it. Thank god for the NHS ❤
My sister lived in the US for 7 years and she had insurance but she had to have surgery, and they even charge for every coke they offered her. ridiculus so grateful we have the nhs
There's no price regulation in the US health market. The UK has not just the NHS, but various government and marketing bodies that stop the price gouging.
The same problem exists in all US pricing, even food. So much for the free market. No price driving down, cheating instead, mark ups to make ludicrous profits at the expense of the vulnerable.
The British way is better, pay your taxes and everyone wins, regardless of their earnings.
Without the NHS so many people in the UK wouldn't be here now, me included. The US way is insane. 😲🤔🙄
Despite all the problems with the NHS at the mo it really is the best,good bless everyone who works in the NHS from consultants to the cleaners.
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'Shut the fridge' is now going down in my lexicon😁
pricfe of a life a child is priceless so support should be free, it takes a village to raise a baby
I'd be afraid to shake hands with the doctor in case they charged me.
A French guy visited our unit and was perplexed when the receptionist wouldn't take his credit card details.... He DID have to pay the post surgery £9.. something for a prescription... it cost him the prescription charge and he got a free coffee on the unit!
To blow your mind, Last week my son collapsed with a severe headache and disrupted vision. After a phone call an ambulance arrived, he was taken to the local A&E, after initial examination he had an MRI scan and was put on a drip plus urgent injections. The next day he was taken to another hospital 20 miles away, Further MRI scans , consultations followed by an emergency operation on his brain. Three more days in hospital before release with a big bag of medication.
Total costless than £30 for parking by the family visitors.
He is now on tablets for the rest of his life. at no charge.
And there are people in the UK that want to disband the NHS because it costs a few quid a week in Taxes.
I'm so grateful to live in Sweden. If I need a operation the procedure cost like 35 dollars. When I was visiting new york as a tourist. I had all kind of insurance cards to show them because my insurance works abroad to.
A work colleague about twenty years ago, was having serious health issues and had private insurance with BUPA. He told me, for each blood test the charge was £15, his insurance ran out and he had to continue treatment with the NHS.
Up until almost 20 years ago I would have given vital parts of my anatomy to have lived in America, Michigan preferably, but red hot tongs and wild horses couldn’t drag me there now (English living in Spain)
Thank God we've got the NHS
They actually don't itemize medical bills unless requested and if you DO request it then somehow it magically becomes a little cheaper
Wow!!! I’m just glad I live in Australia ❤❤
Bless the NHS
In June last year (2022) I had a tractor accident - I was dragged by the back wheel across some fence posts. A fire engine, ambulance and helicopter attended. I was flown to a hospital, where I spent about 5 weeks in intensive care, a couple more weeks in rehab, moved to another hospital by ambulance, was there for a few more weeks, then to a third hospital for a couple of weeks, then home. I had broken all but two of my ribs - some of them in 3 places. These were patched up with titanium plates. I had my spleen removed. Left scapula and clavicle were broken, and some damage to one of my lumber vertebrae (L9). Stomach was pierced, and they sorted out a duodenal ulcer. Lots of physiotherapy, including hydrotherapy. Cost to me - £0.00, though I dread to think what it cost the NHS and air ambulance service. The surgeons were in two minds about whether it was worth actually doing anything. I'm glad they did, and what they and the other staff at the various hospitals did was amazing - they were all incredibly helpful and good. I wonder what that would have cost in the US!
Wow, I've got type 2 diabetes, sleep apnoea and have to take 6 lots of tablets, If I lived in the States I would have to remortgage my house to pay for all that.😮
I have a friend in texas who is a cop and therefore gets really good insurance, he informs me that the suicide rate in the force of those diagnosed with cancer is astronomical because they can't afford there own costs but also if they die the costs are passed to next of kin!!!!!!!
Completely unrelated, but as an American over here have you discovered the delights of roast potatoes, as I gather they're largely unknown in the States? (Sorry if you've already covered this!)
Living in Ireland for the past 25 years we have a partial public healthcare system. One can apply for a free Medical Card which covers all medical and related costs (a prescription charge per item payable but low and capped) but the card is means tested if in employment. The card is available for all children and OAP's (on state pension or over 75 if a private one), also for anyone on state benefits, disabled or in full time education up to Bachelor Degree level. Just a night in a public hospital costs €150 for the bed only when paying for it, food, drugs and medical treatment extra. Private treatment is a similar cost to the US. Insurance cover has gone through the roof recently. Our hospital parking is also astronomical and everyone has to pay that.
I'm a Brit who literally moved to the US last week. I am utterly astonished and disgusted by the US health system! I've only needed to use it in the past under UK travel insurance, which either cost around £200 for a month, or came with a bank account, otherwise NHS. But now the first thing I'm told is that insurance, whether you use it or not, can cost tens of thousands of $$$$!!! Even with that, you can find yourself paying multiple thousands before insurance kicks in. One of the major causes of death in the US is not having insurance, hardly surprising there is a shorter life expectancy in the US. I fail to understand how many Americans can have families of 3-5 kids. In general, going to the US on holiday is, well, it was cheap, back before Brexit, when the £ was worth something against the $, but life in the US is completely different. Most Brits have no idea how lucky they are. Same goes for Canadians, who share the free health system as well.
One of the major causes of death in the US is not having insurance. lol.
Come on, you've only been there for one week...
@@chrisbodum3621 after 23 years of temporarily living in 2 countries, not to mention I can read statistics and personal experience in health care, yes I know.
@@parkerlings One of the major causes of death in the US is not having insurance. lol.
A tad repetitive there. Condider the fact that, as per the CDC, there are over 30 million Americans without health insurance (it was around 50 million around 2006), with many millions barely managing to pay for it. Example year, over 45000 died in 2009 due to no insurance, and that was the norm for many years prior and since. On top of that, the mental issues caused by losing their homes, becoming bankrupt, taken to court. Guessing you're either considerably well off, or just trolling.
Goodbye 👋
With the holding your baby thing, I'm surprised no one has taken it to the supreme court on the grounds of being kidnapping and holding a person to ransom. That's practically what's happening.
In March 1998 I took my parents to northern California for ten days to visit my brother who was working in Pleasanton for a short while. We were there for ten days and over the weekend we went to Yosemite national park. Being early March there was lots of snow and ice on the ground and my mother went and slipped on the ice and broke both bones (Radius and Ulna) in her left wrist. The care and treatment she got was wonderful. We were lucky we had travel insurance however, as the bill, when it came, was somewhat north of $1m.
First mistake is going to the most expensive state in the US for medical care.
@@marydavis5234 Yeah, maybe, lol. And according to our travel insurance company many US healthcare providers push up the prices for foriegn travellers. The point I was actually trying to make though was that the clinicians themselves were lovely caring people, even though the treatment was ridiculously expensive.
I really wonder about the Americans who come to the UK or EU, see our free-at-the-point-of-use health care, plus our heavily regulated guns policy, and then return to their country and tell everyone that free health care and safer streets from gun crimes are tyrannical forms of government that must be opposed. Amanda, we need you to bring sanity to your country and stand to be president!
That is unbelievable, We are so lucky to have the NHS. So what would happen if in the USA someone had no money or insurance, would they not be treated?
Sadly, my friend, I've had two 'friends' die due to not being able to afford the insulin that they required to keep them alive. 😥
Yes they would be treated and be put on a monthly payment plan for the amount they can afford every month.I did have surgery in 2008, my insurance paid all but $3’700 of the $12’000 and I called the hospitals billing department and set up a monthly payment plan to pay $100.00 a month until it was fully paid off. Some American will not set up a month payment plan because they are embarrassed to admit they can’t pay it off all at once.
@@micksmixxx That is so sad, sorry for your loss
@@marydavis5234 That's crazy, i would have thought the the insurance would pay everything😧
@@TheMopar59 We never actually met, my friend. They were long-term internet 'friends, but it still angers me that a 'so-called' civilised society can allow this to happen. 😭
Was on a vacation, one of my kids had to be admitted to the ER. 3AM in the morning, kid hooked up to a bunch of machines, nice lady wheels in this computer cart with a credit card terminal on it.
I had never experienced that at home, it was surreal, bizarre and confusing.
Granted, the care we received was REALLY good, but if I hadn't been able to afford it?
Hi Amanda, I believe I wouldn't survive. I have type 1 diabetes and CLL. Keep up the great work, love your videos
When I had 2 sons born (1986/1988), I was in the U.S. Navy. The government took care of it. So I only paid $25.00 each at 2 different civilian hospitals.
I understand you need to ask for an itemised bill, otherwise they just give you a lump sum bill. I'm also told that they don't tell you you will be billed for mother baby contact. Groggy mums automatically say yes when the nurse asks if you would like to hold your baby. Mercenary b......s.
That is BS, the first paperwork you get from any medical places in the US, you get a combination paperwork is a itemized bill and the full estimate before it is sent to your health insurance
@@marydavis5234 Hmm!
Also, I once had a funny turn in my car in the middle middle of no where so I had to get an ambulance out, they came out, checked me over, said I was fine and went on their way. I got hit with a 200 dollar bill and the insurance wouldn't touch it as I wasn't transported to the local hospital 😮
What a lot of people don't know is that the NHS was founded on US money, so arguably the US started the NHS. There were plans of a National Health Service even before the Second World War, surprisingly by a Conservative Government. But when WW2 happened it went on the back burner and after WW2 Britain was more or less bankrupt. The US in the meantime, being the only government to come out of the war richer than it was going in, decided to help Europe by loaning them money to get them back on their feet. It was called The Marshall Plan, after George C. Marshall, all allied countries that fought in the war were offered a cut of the $13.3 Billion (equivalent to $173 billion in 2023). This included the USSR, although they refused it and did their own version, The Molotov Plan. Britain was the largest benefactor, receiving 26% of the money which would be paid back over 50 years (Britain finally finished paying for it in 1998). Using the money from the Marshall Plan, the then Labour Government started the NHS and other initiatives to help get Britain back on it's feet again. That is how the NHS came to be.
I work for the ambulance service in the UK and the last thing on people's minds are whether they can afford to pay or not! Michael Moore's documentary Sicko is a good watch.
My partner's mother, (an NHS nurse), once told me that the cost of all the treatment needed by her daughter who was born with disabilities would have bankrupted her if she was American. To be honest, I'm not sure how much it would have amounted to. Thank goodness for the NHS!
I've been blue lighted by ambulances to A&E more times than I care to remember. Received incredible amounts of medical intervention (still do) and all of it paid for by my taxes; well spent. I just cannot understand why Americans cannot get this, when the rest of the 1st world takes it for granted (and pays for it though taxes etc.) I have three separate inhalers and 12 different types of meds, which I take constantly. I'm due a major heart procedure later this year, all paid for through my taxes. Even air ambulances are free at the point of use. If I'd been in America, my insurance would have run out long before now and I'd be bankrupt, and probably dead. P.S. I'm now proud to work for NHS Scotland Psychology in a specialist department working with traumatised military veterans. I feel SO honoured to have been chosen for this role.
Thinking about it, we pay insurance too. NI, National Insurance and tax. But we all pay into one scheme each to our ability to contribute which means everyone, despite their income benfits from free at the point of service health care. I suppose, in the US there is a strong lobby from Insurance companies to continue to make a profit, whereas here because it is a National State Insurance there are no share holders to take a profit. Of course there is no surplus, but there doesn't need to be. It definitly seems to be the more civilised approach, despite its current difficulties.
Totally agree with the girl 3:04 "Man, if your poor your dead" welcome to the wonderful richest country in the world. USA, USA, USA.
Portuguese health care is pretty reasonable, but I never thought to ask how much it costs to have a baby 😂
I’m in debt for over $2,500 after having a right nephrectomy and a year later my gallbladder removed. Also being treated for renal carcinoma in my right lung with periodic ct scans. Since I live in Boston we have some of the best medical facilities in the world here. Yes I have Blue Cross. The kidney removed without insurance would have been over $40,000.
G'day Amanda! So for a little bit of other side of the world comparison...Here in Australia we too have a national health system, "Medicare" and like the NHS is pretty much free...Now during "Covid" all electives here were postponed for over 18 months and I urgently needed a hip replacement(aged 70) but the waiting lists from Covid had blown out to almost 2 years where I live. Fortunately I have private health insurance and could get it done almost straight away in a private hospital...my insurance is "Gold" and my total co-pay was $1,500 AUS($1,00 USD) and for context I pay about $3,200AUS ($2,140 USD) per annum for my insurance...Ambulance fees here are different by state but here in NSW Road ambulance emergency $407 plus $3.67 per km Road ambulance non-emergency $320 plus $1.98 per km, Fixed Wing & Helicopter emergency $407 plus $376 per km...all these have a cap of maximum $6,668 (all in Australian dollars)...Hope this is helpful and Cheers!
US health care is insane but they get even crazier with the insurance, there is so many different policies out there.
I know it
Have had right eye cataract and lens replacement done and will get left eye done in few weeks - all for free! Wish I'd done it years ago - can already see great with only one eye done.
I have just received emergency treatment for pneumonia in Thailand for 10 days that cost 12,000£UK pounds.
With the increasing costs of American health costs, I am seriously surprised that the population of American isn’t at zero!!!
Americans need to watch Michael Moore’s Sicko ( 2007 ) to get a serious reality check and to force a change in their healthcare system!!!
Re: The hospital invoice in the US
Just remember to get an itemized one (usually have to request it) as they try to sneak in various outrageous prices for things & "errors", there are some clips/articles around explaining how bills can be reduced by 25% just because you asked for a proper accounting of the costs. It's almost a game with them trying to charge as much as possible because it's insurance that usually has to pay. It's mad.
Well if the Brits are not very careful, the glorious days of the NHS might soon be over thanks to a tory government and Brexit.
Please stop blaming Brexit for everything. I don't know what propaganda you're being fed but things haven't noticeably changed here from before we left that corrupt club.
I heard it cost approx 20 to 30 thousand dollars in the USA to go to hospital to have a baby and receive the health car until you leave the hospital.. That shocked me.. I'm. Not sure if it's completely true or not
my cousin paid 27 thousand quid in 1997
@@MrBurtonshaw good god.. Thats it I'm staying here in the UK.. Health and hospital care is all free here in the UK.. OK we pay for it in our taxes but you don't notice that so much... Its much preferable to bring presented with a huge bill
I don't think anyone who has experienced the NHS would begrudge paying National insurance contributions . Of course nothing is perfect , but it comes pretty close in times of crisis . "The skin on skin" claim does seem incredible , and it's good you pointed out the costs depend on insurance and circumstances but I certainly think our system is better value for everyone .
Seems it's charged on ability to pay. Not actual cost
So here's a story about paying for childbirth in the USA. With our daughter, we had great health insurance because we were both in state jobs that provided the health insurance that politicians get to vote to have for themselves, so no problem. A few years later, my wife was self-employed, and I was working for a theatre, so the health insurance was... less comprehensive. Sometimes having health insurance isn't enough, and you have to pay extra for the childbirth rider on the policy in order to cover the cost of pregnancy and childbirth. But once you add it, it is invalid if you get pregnant within six months of adding the rider to the policy. Not only that, but you can only, in many cases, make changes to your policy during a 2 week period once a year (even if it's employer provided health insurance). So at the time my wife and I decided we wanted a second child, we had two choices - pay out of pocket or wait for 10 months to add the childbirth rider and then another six to start trying for a second kid. We chose to pay out of pocket rather than wait until my wife was nearly 41 to start trying. We just finished paying off the childbirth costs last year. Our son turns 12 next week.
The first question in the NHS is. How long will I have to wait. Anyone who has a non emergency like him surgery will wait months possibly more than a year.
My late wife had to make half a dozen trips to the Monash Medical Centre for radiotherapy. Thanks to work, I couldn't drive her there. So the ambulance service did that job. The trip is about an hour and 30 minutes each way. At the end of it, we were confronted with a bill for about $600. But that was incorrect since she was on a part-pension and shouldn't be paying anything. One phone call took care of that. The woman who took the call was very professional and polite too. The system in Australia is hardly perfect and various governments have gutted a lot of Medicare but it's still functioning somehow.
The NHS is fab.
Pretty much the worst thing that can happen to universal health care is for it to be a political football, to be kicked about for political gain.