A side note
Dec. 28th, 2008 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blamebramptonDear Americans,
Outside of your strange, strange country, most of the developed world has this marvellous thing which we like to call health care for all. I'm reading an interesting mpreg (that will teach me not to read the warnings!*) story from hd_hols and the poverty-stricken pregnant one is in despair as his health insurance will not cover it. On the off-chance it was written by someone on my flist, the good for society news is that in the UK, this is not the problem you might think it is! And I have my fingers crossed that in the US, it won't be for much longer, either.
(And if anyone is planning to respond telling me that socialised healthcare is evil, I will LAUGH AT YOU, and then I will QUOTE REAMS OF STATISTICS until you FLEE.)
* And yes, my dislike of mpreg is not supported by the excellent writing that occurs within that genre and the imaginative plots that many superior writers bring to bear on the concept. But I still don't like it!
Outside of your strange, strange country, most of the developed world has this marvellous thing which we like to call health care for all. I'm reading an interesting mpreg (that will teach me not to read the warnings!*) story from hd_hols and the poverty-stricken pregnant one is in despair as his health insurance will not cover it. On the off-chance it was written by someone on my flist, the good for society news is that in the UK, this is not the problem you might think it is! And I have my fingers crossed that in the US, it won't be for much longer, either.
(And if anyone is planning to respond telling me that socialised healthcare is evil, I will LAUGH AT YOU, and then I will QUOTE REAMS OF STATISTICS until you FLEE.)
XXX
BB
* And yes, my dislike of mpreg is not supported by the excellent writing that occurs within that genre and the imaginative plots that many superior writers bring to bear on the concept. But I still don't like it!
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Date: 2008-12-28 11:31 am (UTC)I'm too lazy to find the posts below that actually argue, but I'm proud of living in a country where everyone is entitled to the same level of medical care. *supresses imminent rant before it comes out*
Also, I know the NHS in britain has some problems, and for some people NHS dentists are hard to find, but I've found that the healthcare system is a lot better than you'd think by listening to the media. I had an operation in April, not even an urgent one at all, and the waiting list was less than three months (I was surprised how quickly it all happened actually, I was expecting to wait a year or two!), I had appointments with the consultant, blood tests to make sure I was healthy enough for the operation, lots of the most lovely and friendly nurses I've ever met, and I felt like I was being cared for properly the whole time. And this was in a hospital far "up north".
The only thing that maybe wouldn't have happened in the US if I had lots of money was that I had the op in the morning so that by early afternoon I'd have recovered from the anaesthetic, they could check that I was OK and my mum could take me home for the night and bring me back in the morning for another checkup, thus avoiding the need to take up a hospital bed overnight. But it was completely unnecessary after all and I was an outpatient, so I wasn't bothered by that at all. I was treated wonderfully.
Also, I don't like mpreg either. I don't have any interest whatsoever in stories where a character being pregnant is an important part of the plot, since pregnancy in general is not a pleasant process and I dont like the "growing up and having babies and being a lovey dovey family" kind of stories. So why make it possible for a man to be pregnant just so you can have the same kind of plot points in a slash story??