On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 20:39:30 +0000, "Paul J. Adam" wrote:

In message , Alan Minyard
writes
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 01:09:56 GMT, "Bjørnar Bolsøy" bbolsoy@
nospam.nospam wrote:
Which particular european nations and medical care system
are you refering to?

All of them. They are decades behind the US Medical Care
system.

Provided you're adequately insured, US healthcare is by all accounts
very good.

One great benefit of living in the UK is that I don't have to worry
about my insurers causing me harm to save money, or refusing to cover my
treatment.

We have laws (particularly one called COBRA) that prevents any hospital
from refusing treatment on the basis of ability to pay. The vast majority of
hospitals in the US write off millions of dollars a year as uncollectable
debts.

Al Minyard