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nctnico:

--- Quote from: coppice on April 25, 2020, 10:10:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on April 25, 2020, 09:58:04 pm ---I don't get why chemo would be considered non-essential. Here they stopped all elective procedures, as far as I was aware something like chemo was not considered elective but I thankfully have not had a need to find out.

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I saw a short interview on the news with an ICU doctor who was puzzled by the large drop in the kinds of emergency patients they normally see a steady steam of. Maybe COVID-!9 is magically stopping all other emergencies from occurring. Maybe those people are going directly to the rising non-COVID19 deaths figure.

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More conspiracy theories  :palm: In reality the answer is really simple: people don't get into so many accidents if they stay at home. Maybe that ICU doctor isn't the sharpest knife in the cutlery tray. This isn't hard to figure out.
bd139:
That and probably the 30 minute wait for 999 around here finishing everyone off.

Remind me why do I pay tax again?  :-//
coppice:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 25, 2020, 10:17:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on April 25, 2020, 10:10:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on April 25, 2020, 09:58:04 pm ---I don't get why chemo would be considered non-essential. Here they stopped all elective procedures, as far as I was aware something like chemo was not considered elective but I thankfully have not had a need to find out.

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I saw a short interview on the news with an ICU doctor who was puzzled by the large drop in the kinds of emergency patients they normally see a steady steam of. Maybe COVID-!9 is magically stopping all other emergencies from occurring. Maybe those people are going directly to the rising non-COVID19 deaths figure.

--- End quote ---
More conspiracy theories  :palm: In reality the answer is really simple: people don't get into so many accidents if they stay at home. Maybe that ICU doctor isn't the sharpest knife in the cutlery tray. This isn't hard to figure out.

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He specifically referenced infection issues, not accidents, dumbass.
james_s:

--- Quote from: bd139 on April 25, 2020, 10:10:00 pm ---For the folk outside the UK, the NHS is untouchable here after being a political pawn for decades. You can't criticise it or the staff even if there's bodies everywhere from a gigantic fuck up.

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Even so, I can tell you without question that I would take that shitshow over the spectacularly worse shitshow that is the US healthcare system. Nowhere else in the developed world will you be denied treatment due to lack of insurance, or get a bill for $150k+ for a heart attack. Even with insurance a friend of mine had a mild heart attack a few years ago and was still on the hook for $7k. We had something like 35 million citizens without health insurance even before Covid. Even with good insurance it's still an absolute nightmare to navigate, I rarely seek medical care unless something is really serious because it's so hard to know if I'll get a bill for $50 or for $5,000+, it's extremely difficult to know. Sometimes you end up having to fight with the insurance company because they'll find some bullshit reason to deny coverage and then you're on the hook to contest it or pay up. If I set out to design a more convoluted, inefficient and ridiculous system I'd be hard pressed to do so.
bd139:
Yeah yours is much worse. It’s the number one reason I have turned down two US based jobs over the years.

Then again I paid including VAT about £40k of tax last year.  :-//

I don’t mind helping other people which appears to be the antithesis of the US healthcare system though.
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