As an American I’m curious what it’s like if you need to go to the doctor and how much you pay from say a broken arm to general checkup. Also list what country please
As an American I’m curious what it’s like if you need to go to the doctor and how much you pay from say a broken arm to general checkup. Also list what country please
UK. It’s great, mostly. However it is underfunded which means you can have long wait times for non-urgent stuff. If a hospital referral sees you in a week or so you can take that as a sign that you are fucked. But it’s amazing not to have to fear financial ruin if I get sick. I think most UK taxpayers wouldn’t mind paying a little extra if it was ringfenced for the NHS. We need more medical staff and they need to be paid a lot better.
Edit - dental care can be pretty expensive though.
Yeah I don’t know how the NHS managed to shit the bed on dentistry so badly
I was a dental nurse for a while in my youth and NHS dental price bands were always so weird. Sometimes it was far cheaper to go private for some procedures that were within NHS band 2 but were really on the very low end of that scale, stuff like sealant or a tiny amount of filling like a glass ionomer as a prevention for a cavity that was only a few mins worth of work or applying some fissure sealant.