>>In the US, they're standing at the door checking your insurance coverage, forcing you to fill in endless consentforms before they even consider treating you. If there is a risk that you cannot pay or find something extraordinary on the consent forms, you might be put back at the line, hoping you will go somewhere else, if you're lucky and not be refused right away.
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>>Then I'm not even talking about their ill definition of a medical emergency. Up here, for example sudden hearingloss, a broken nose or any other medical issue that can be cured easily if treated on time is considered a medical emergency. In the US about only if you'll die.
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>>Really, your healthcare is seriously ill.
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>>And you really think that Obamacare is going to chage this?????? ROF,L and LOL!!! Obamacare is going to make it worse.
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>How on earth can it be any worse than it currently is?

That is my point exactly in this discussion. Health care costs have spiraled out of control here for a long time and statistically we are not even healthy for a rich country. It's time to try something different. Change scares most people, including me. Often we wind up wondering what we were scared of.