[lit-ideas] Re: health care
- From: "Veronica Caley" <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:33:10 -0500
Judy:?99 p.a.
Judy, what does the J and p.a. stand for?
Veronica
> [Original Message]
> From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 11/25/2004 2:46:56 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: health care
>
> Thursday, November 25, 2004, 11:38:32 AM, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Jac> Judy, Teemu, Erin, John, anyone else outside of the US -- I'm
curious --
> Jac> what does a standard Doctor's office visit cost you, in U.S.
dollars?
>
> zero
>
>
> What
> Jac> would a regimine of 10 days of amoxicillan run?
>
>
> zero - as I have already paid my £99 p.a. "prescription pre-payment --
and it would be zero if I were exempt from charges: details here (for
England: in Wales, further categories of people are exempt).
>
> www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23069022/
>
>
> otherwise, whatever a prescription item costs; £6.40 (but in Wales, £5.0,
and the Welsh Assembly intends abolishing all charges by 2007).
>
>
> > or a CAT scan?
>
>
> zero on the NHS. But there would -- normally, and hereabouts -- be a
wait. I only had to wait a month for a totally non-urgent NHS MRI, because
the Cardiff medics make good use of cancellations, ringing people who live
nearby and can take up a place at short notice. That MRI (of both knees)
done privately at the local BUPA (main private health insurers) hospital
would have cost approximately 940 USD.
>
> I have no idea what private GPs charge for appointments, nor what private
prescriptions cost nor what the drugs cost
>
>
> --
> Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
> mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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