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IMHO, National health insurance works well as long as you don't have any serious health problems. The minute you do, it falls apart.>
>Insurance may be very difficult to find in the US if you have a minor condition. It may be impossible to find if you have a serious condition. Even if you've paid premiums for years, some companies will cancel your cover if you develop an expensive chronic condition. These are some of the reasons why employer's quasi-social schemes came into being.
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>For contrast, can you name a national healthcare scheme that tosses you out/refuses to provide cover when you develop a serious health problem? The fact that this specifically does NOT happen is one of the characteristics of such a system.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/15/us/vermont-case-may-upset-transplant-policy.htmlShe won the case, but she died before she knew it.
And what about the 22 year old in Britain who was refused a liver under the NHS?
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