Comments by "J Smith" (@jsmithmultimediatech) on "The real reason American health care is so expensive" video.

Yeah with A&E (the used term by the public but within the workforce of any hospital it's referred to as ED the Emergency Dept.) stands of course for Accident & Emergency (formerly called Casualty and infact the TV show of the same name) care is always free no matter where you're from, from the point of delivery that is, the only time you'd actually be charged for it is if you were to be admitted, though it's not within the NHS's ethos to tell who's eligible for free NHS healthcare before treatment is started (they do charge in the region of around £800 per day for an NHS bed alone). Even some British residents who've been living abroad (it's determined by the regulations I believe of the NHS) for a specified amount of time at least and I think within a certain time frame compared to when firstly they came back to the country and started treatment could sometimes be charged. It certainly is not a charity and even so there are some units as such (covering wards or wings of NHS hospitals) who provide Private Health Care, the reality is their profits for using NHS buildings is put back into offering NHS free care for the eligible patients.
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Hence why everyone when having an elective procedure done will be asked (especially at pre-operative assessments, to cut down on the number of possible cancellations due to the health status of a patient and among other things, which costs the NHS money it's not fool proof though but does help a lot) if they've ever lived abroad.
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"Astro nobody "decides" to be poor. If someday your luck changes and you become poor (nobody thinks is going to happen, but sometimes it does) I hope nobody will help you in anyway, you don't deserve to be helped." I'd be far more inclined personally to care for someone such as that, but not be pleasant whilst doing it, yeah I may care for someone but in reality doesn't mean I have to make small talk with someone like that. As with the likes of Nik Yarris you make someone suffer greatly by making them live, my way of thinking about something like that would be to give them the silent treatment, to give them what they require and that's it no more.
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"Dunno where you're getting your figures from, but we don't pay anywhere near 60% tax here in the UK" It's actually barely 25% at the lowest threshold, there's actually three ranges depending on how much you earn per year (it's actually based on National Insurance contributions) up to £11,850 = 0% (Personal Allowance and you never pay tax on that amount anyway for the latter), £11,851 - £46,350 = 20% (arguably most fit within this who pay tax and is called Basic rate), £46,351 - £150,000 = 40% (Higher rate) and over £150,000 = 45% (Additional rate) of earnings all of income tax obviously (then you have other forms of tax like VAT which stands at 20% for the majority but then there's others like for some utilities is actually 8% I believe or certainly was. Even at the Additional Rate you're still talking complete and utter bollocks, maybe do some fact checking for once instead of doing what the average dumb Yank comes out with? smh PS Those are the new 2018 rates was standardised as was pretty complicated years ago.
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