Hospital Visits

I am annoyed at the current state of affairs in America in terms of how the general public have to pay for their hospital treatments. If I break my leg or contract a serious illness, and I have to cough up money in any way, and it could be in the thousands, and I do not have that type of money. That is not you, the readers fault, but millions of people across America are in the same situation, and if they do have some form of insurance is doesn’t always cover the amount owed to the hospital. If I need a heart transplant, what will happen to me? Will the hospital do with me? Let me or you die?

England, and Canada have a system in place that you pay for your hospitals through taxes, or national insurance. Yes you still have to pay for it, but this system is much better. I feel that we have a social obligation to have each others back when it comes to hospital treatments. What if your daughter, son, mother, or father find out they have the most severe cancer, but nobody has the money to pay for treatment, because nobody has enough money to help pay for it?  Money from these tax systems is already in place to help.

Like every country England, and Canada have people who do not want to work, because they know they can use the loop holes in benefit system to keep getting each countries unemployment benefits, but being from England I know England is trying to make it tougher on these people, where America seems not to want to do anything about the people on their benefits systems, and have been for decades. So there is no point in my opinion trying to say that they are any better at keeping people working. Each country has its faults, and I mean all countries.

Denmark’s highest rate of tax on workers currently as I am aware is 59%, and I have a friend who was given a promotion she didn’t want because she had to move from Denmark to England, because the taxes in Denmark where to high for the amount of money she was working for. She did mention that Denmark’s hospitals etc are much better though, and she felt Denmark had a better quality of life, but seeming she was single she couldn’t afford to be paying so much tax on her own. This I feel is where it defeats the purpose of having this form of payment for health care as it is far to much to be asking people to be paying as much as 59% income tax.