Originally Posted by
OutsideCAS
Can also now happen in the UK. Shame there isn't an NHS anymore.
It depends on what you have happen to you. Get seriously injured in any accident and the NHS will pick up the pieces, very few private sector hospitals will want to know. They are often good at elective surgery, where you don't need to be operated on at midnight on a Sunday, which the NHS has done for my next door neighbour.
And private sector hospitals work on the basis of 'in, cut, out'. My sister in law had private surgery for cancer of the ovaries, but as soon as complications arose, she was dumped into an NHS hospital.
For teeth and specs you do have to go private. And for important but not time critical operations like hips and knees, going private lets you jump the queue.
And if you lose your job for any reason, your NHS cover does not stop.