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[BazaJT]

An American who survived Covid after many days in ICU on a ventilator received a 181 page itemised hospital bill for his treatment which came to $1,122,501.04 His insurance picked up most of the tab and the rest came from the US government assistance programme.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I wonder if people would respect and appreciate the NHS a bit more if they received an itemised account of their treatment costs. 

Probably not!   

[Doctor Gollum]

I wonder if people would respect and appreciate the NHS a bit more if they received an itemised account of their treatment costs. 

Probably not!   

Tru dat...

[Raeturbo]

Here here

[Rangie]

There was a programme on TV last year which showed a pregnant African woman who was turned away from the USA after landing there because of her babies imminent birth, she then got a flight to the UK  was fully looked after at a London hospital I believe she had twins who had complications of some kind. After several weeks stay there she was presented with a bill of several thousand pounds to which she smiled & said " God bless England" Not one penny was ever paid to the NHS.😡

[Doctor Gollum]

Borderforce turn them around at immigration and rightly so.

[Raeturbo]

100%

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I wonder if people would respect and appreciate the NHS a bit more if they received an itemised account of their treatment costs. 

Probably not!   

I would enjoy picking through one of those and correcting all the figures to something resembling the real commercial world most of us have to live in. Would it make me respect it more. No chance. I would still want to shut it down, and start again from scratch.

[TheBoy]

I heard on the news that this super doper wonderdrug that has a 1:8 success rate against the sniffle thing, but is claimed to be the saviour, is around £5 per treatment in the UK, and much cheaper in the developing world.


That in itself shows how oppsed up it all is, and I'm surprised the BBC slipped that fact in.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I heard on the news that this super doper wonderdrug that has a 1:8 success rate against the sniffle thing, but is claimed to be the saviour, is around £5 per treatment in the UK, and much cheaper in the developing world.


That in itself shows how oppsed up it all is, and I'm surprised the BBC slipped that fact in.

Possibly because the NHS buys the branded drug from the original manufacturer in Europe or North America, whereas everyone else buys the generic version from somewhere like India. 

[STEMO]

I heard on the news that this super doper wonderdrug that has a 1:8 success rate against the sniffle thing, but is claimed to be the saviour, is around £5 per treatment in the UK, and much cheaper in the developing world.


That in itself shows how oppsed up it all is, and I'm surprised the BBC slipped that fact in.

Possibly because the NHS buys the branded drug from the original manufacturer in Europe or North America, whereas everyone else buys the generic version from somewhere like India. 

Shouldn't have to now, it's been available for years and years, and I thought the original manufacturers lost their exclusivities after so long.

Warning: I may be wrong, it happens now and again 

[TheBoy]

I suspect the truth is nearer the utter ineptness of the NHS buyers. Along with the rest of the suits there.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I suspect the truth is nearer the utter ineptness of the NHS buyers. Along with the rest of the suits there.

Probably. 

We might all be right.  If there is a cheap generic version from somewhere like India or the Philippines, the NHS procurement bods would  keep buying XYZ brand from Texas, Toronto or Toledo because that is where they've always got it from. 

[Doctor Gollum]

I just wanted to punch the tellybox yesterday when that tw@@t from the Sun asked when it was going to be available.

His face was a proper picture when the Medical chap said it's been available for sixty years and the prescribing Doctor could walk across the corridor and get it from the pharmacy 

[STEMO]

With the average age of posters on here, it's a wonder there aren't more reports of actual telly smashing events.