Reply #6: Meanwhile in America many people are not insured or underinsured

[eagertolearn]

and are going bankrupt even if they have health care because of our current system. I America one daughter waited 6 hours in an Eugene Oregon ER to get a little Novocaine and 6 stitches on an eyebrow wound. When she went back to the ER 10 days later she waited another 4 hours to get the stitches removed. The whole bill was $1600. They actually charged her for removing the stitches but we got that removed. While in Germany my other daughter fell off her bike, got right into a very nice clinic and had a doctor and two nurses cleaning and stitching her up right away. 26 stitches, dressings for several days, antibiotics, tetanus shot, some pain pills all for a total of $75 that we insisted on paying. Our exchange student from Norway nursed a bad hip all her life and was pretty hard on it when she was here. When she got back they said yes she needed it replaced. They gave her a choice of flying 3 hours away by plane to Oslo or waiting in her own town of Tromso for 8 months. She waited the 8 months (working a job that she could sit at) and had the surgery and 3 months of rehab with her own room at the hospital (she actually went home every night) and her dad said if they had had to pay for that they would never of been able to pay it off. Because they pay into a nationalized health care system they didn't have any out of pocket expenses. They pay almost 50% in taxes when you add up the food tax and everything else but that covers health care and schools 100%. We can keep talking about the long waits in these other countries but what about no health care and long waits in America. Our other exchange student from Germany is studying to be a doctor and is very excited!