Featured Finds Thread

Scotland and Wales get free prescriptions. The most you can pay for drugs is a little over £100 a year in England, but many are exempt. Waits for other things do vary but you can elect to go out of area. My very recent experience of ambulance response and major emergency care was that it was superb.

National Insurance is only payable if you work. I had private insurance with some employers, used it a couple of times out of convenience or for things like chiropractic. If you go private, the main difference is better food. You basically get the same consultant.

I well remember my dear friend in CA who died from pancreatic cancer. Even with her husband's excellent medical insurance - he worked for the county - it cost them ten grand in drugs a year. Another friend could not afford his cancer surgery.

 

I think the real difference is speed for "elective" surgeries, along with much you shell out. My high school crush (lives with his boyfriend, so I never had a prayer) had to wait months for spinal fusion surgery that here in the USA would have been done in a week. He lives in the Montreal area and the Canadian health drags its feet too.

 

Dear UK Friends-So just to get clear thru my thick yank skull,you don't have to pay for basic government health insurance after you retire ? Is basic gov healthcare bare bones or decent ?
We both worked for 40 years on the books and still pay $800 a month-ouch !
PS-End of my rant/quest,thanks for your patience.

 

Marko-Bless for taking care of Uncle.

 

He was my godfather, my dad's brother. He was the fun uncle, but old age takes a terrible toll. My dad went relatively quick after his stroke, my uncle slowly declined....not that we have choices, but I would opt for the first.

 

My Dad went quick after 93 pretty healthy years.My Grandpa was totally paralyzed,couldn't speak,and lasted 10 very long years in bed. Quick,if it's your time,is best.

 

A friend of mine, a WWII vet, got out of bed in the middle of the night, walked over to his bedroom door and fell down dead. That's how I want to go.

 

A good life with some love left behind,then a quick exit.

 

if it's your time.........there's the rub......who decides that now a days??

 

The NHS is basically free, mostly, at the point of delivery As davey says, once you retire you don't pay NI. Nor do you pay it on a low income, unemployed, disabled, whatever.

I've only very ocasionally used private, when I got it as a work perk. I did have one private check a couple of years back when I had a cancer scare and wanted the answer NOW please. The lovely consultant reassured me, then popped me straight back to an NHS follow up appointment. He also only charged me for one of the two visits, too. Same chap as if I'd waited a week for the NHS.

When himself had bowel cancer, picked up by FREE routine screening, we asked if his treatment would be any faster or whatever if private. The surgeon, who does private as well, basically said don't waste your money, same treatment, same speed. He was dead right.

 

Well now...how do we Yanks rejoin the UK ? Our 'free' $9600.00 (just call it 10K) U.S. government sponsored health insurance is a bit pricey for many of us retirees here in the states.
We do have one legal option,here's the Grift: (er, i meant,'Steps')-

1. Sell the house and granny unit,liquefy all the investments,sell the second car,then blow all the cash. 2. Spend all funds down to $2000 ea and apply for Medical (gov-supplied medical welfare). 3. Once all accounts have been audited and we are judged as officially destitute seniors-we get free health coverage !
P.S.-We may actually be able to retain one primary residence and one car,but any other new assets or infusions of cash (surprise inheritance,lottery,etc),would most likely kick us off the rolls.One of our ace researchers will know the answer in a single keyboard flick of their pinky finger.

Here's Grift 2:-
1.Run for higher tier government position and accept any and all forms of dark money contributions (no moral judgement on sources please).The resulting funds should cover insurance.Resources needed- YouTube channel.Party Platform-'Let's burrow down into the weirdest rabbit holes together-nothing is 'urban myth'. We give all and any beliefs and opinions credence-I agree with everything,send cash'.

 

May I remind you that this is the "Finds" thread - devoted to the exciting items members have found and want to show off to others, not to political rants (which are not allowed anywhere on the site.)

 

While it may not be on topic for this forum, it's unclear to me how a discussion of health care -- a universal human need -- could be considered a "political rant."

Debora

 

Baker's been the 'hall monitor' here for as long as I've been here (i beleive she's one of the Founders). An online Forum/Board can go 'off-the wheels' in a heartbeat.Thanks for your support Debora,and You Baker & Moderator for curating and keeping the Board safe & intact.
I don't even know how this thread started-oh yeah-'Too broke to pick...'

 

I went picking a bit today. Found nothing crazy, unless you count a big bag of 4mm glass beads for 25 cents. They're going into my stash.

 

People been round millions of years

The 'healthcare' scam bout fitty years

Can't say's it's a need

 

Some of the oldest human remains ever unearthed are the Omo One bones found in Ethiopia. For decades, their precise age has been debated, but a new study argues they're around 233,000 years old.

really......millions ??

or is that just kid speak ......

 

The boards are in a cantankerous mood.