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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
I don't know for fact but you can usually buy treatment somewhere -- get on a train or plane.
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yea, you are 72 years old and weak... and so you hop on a plane to another country to get medical treatment... sounds very realistic...
and what are you complaining about anyway? what's stopping you from doing the same? Mexico isn't very far and medical care over there is dirt cheap...
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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
A pre-existing condition denial is illegal under the ACA (Obamacare) so that issue is moot.
You will die without this experimental treatment -- OK doc I'll crawl off and die or like a good Indian. I go to sit in the Happy Hunting Grounds 'till I draw my last breath -- today is a good day to die. That said, there should be a reasonable success rate in a procedure -- who is to decide; A government technocrat or a money-profit motivated insurance company's policy? What is worse?
In the end it is all about the money.
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critical difference is that in the UK NHS decides what treatment you will get, cause as far as I know, you can't say "I prefer the new experimental treatment, I'll pay for it, lets start tomorrow...".... so over there some bureaucrat 100% without any doubt decides your fate, like the OPs story illustrates....
in the US, in some cases insurance company may decide if they will pay for it... you then have an option to choose if you want the insurance company to pay for generally accepted medical treatment or if you want to invest your own $$ to get possibly better experimental treatment... so your fate is in your hands, not in hands of some bureaucrat...
I guess it's a matter of preference, but I don't see how having fewer options could possibly be better...