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Brit to America: Your healthcare system sucks! By Rizzuto Fri Aug 14, 2009 - David Millward of the Telegraph is convinced of the superiority of the UK’s National Healthcare Service over Americas insurance based system. To make his case, Millward recounts the story of his 78 year old mother-in-law who was involved in an automobile accident, shattering her knee. After treatment, she was charged for a knee brace and required to haggle with the insurers and fill out months worth of paperwork. He continues his story in The Telegraph UK: A few years later she had a heart attack and the final months of her life gave us a further insight into the bureaucratic nightmare which surrounds the American insurance-based system.So let me get this straight…in order to prove the superiority of British socialized medicine over Americas insurance based system, you bash the American version of your system, Medicare. In other words, Americans would be much better off if we ALL were subjected to the same nightmare system that supposedly failed your mother-in-law? In addition, Millward is not being entirely forthright in his recounting of this story, as he’s leaving out crucial details. This isn’t the first time he’s written about it. In fact, in 2003 he wrote a similar story for The New Statesman, a radical socialist magazine based in London. In this version of the story, Millward reveals that after the accident: Bruised and battered, [my mother-in-law] was taken home by John in his Toyota pick-up truck. He rang. "It's no good, she just collapsed on the toilet," he said. Fortunately, or so we thought, a bed at a rehabilitation centre (an "Inc", naturally) was found. Admission was secured by paying $2,000, on my wife's credit card. This, we hoped, would be covered by Medicare. It was not - because the scheme kicks in only after a minimum three-day stay in hospital. I was advised to hire a lawyer, and did. He explained that Connecticut requires motor insurance companies to provide personal accident cover. This would take care of the bill for the rehabilitation centre.So government run Medicare and auto insurance companies forced to give coverage by government mandate failed to adequately provide for your mother-in-law? I’m lost…where’s the part that’s supposed to convince me that I should demand that the government take more authority over healthcare? h/t Hot Air
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