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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go ahead and move to Canada, or Europe....enjoy your months-long wait to see your doctor for a max of 15 mins. [/quote]

If an American moves to these countries - do they even qualify for national health care as a non-citizen?[/quote]
depends. You can pay into the system to use it.

We looked into it for the UK. It's about $3500 for 3 years.

Regardless, you can pay private for everything because health care in general is cheaper every where else compared to the US.  No insurance premiums needed.

We spend $20K in the US for medical care here, and most years, we don't even hit the deductible. It makes me sick to think of how much money we waste on health insurance that we use maybe a few times a year. But, we don't want to go without just in case we get a serious illness.  It's f*n scary here.  We are in our 50s, and we have talked about going to the UK if we want to retire early because the cost of private insurance here is stupid expensive.  We would use NHS for general checkups, non-urgent issues, and pay privately for things we don't want to wait for.

My spouse is a Brit.[/quote]

I posted just above. My spouse is also British. Read up on what has been happening with ambulances. And with the fact it's very difficult to get even remotely non-emergency operations done on the NHS. LIke I say above: The NHS has helped my family tremendously (and was helpful to us a few times when traveling over there). But don't have rose-colored glasses on re: speed of service, availability of services everywhere, or availability of non-emergency services.  We know people who have waited a year or more for surgeries including knee replacement. Again, I'm actually pro-socialized-medicine! But you yourself say it, PP: You would pay privately for what you dont' want to wait for. That's great for you but it's a position of immense privilege that most in the UK do not have. And you might be shocked at how very expensive those private pay treatments or operations would be. [/quote]

“What’s happening with the ambulances” is that they’re currently striking. This affects care. You know, like nurses in multiple hospitals in the U.S. did last week.[/quote]

You are not paying attention. I was clear that the delays are NOT solely about the strikes. and if you'd bothered to read the article by the doctor, you'd have seen that the issue there was not strikes. When ambulance services are operational there are STILL huge, life-threatening delays. You need to read with more care, and perhaps pay more attention to overall news, not just focusing on the strikes. [/quote]

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