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Originally Posted by lostalex
you are just lying now. i have seen plenty of docummentaries about British people having to come to America for treatment, and if you don't know about this, then it's just your own ignorance. America has the best healthcare in the world, if you can afford it.
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To be fair - although this is true - it's almost always for "experimental" treatment programs that are not yet fully proven, and it's more to do with the fact that high coverage US health insurance will often cover these treatments. private British healthcare plans probably WOULD cover experimental treatments, were they available in the UK, but it's simply not cost effective for the companies running these trials to do so in a country that doesn't have high private insurance levels to pay for it. generally these treatments do (eventually) make their way into standard healthcare once they have been fully proven.
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