France's Heat Toll Soars

[Guillaume]

Leonidas has summed up the exact causes of tht tragedy... However a little precision is necessary: since the topic was started we had an "official body count", the number of victims now is 14,802!!!

That government won't last long I think, 1789 bis here we come!

[Rat Faced]

France now is just following the american and english way

The American way and British way are totally different from each other...

The UK, like France, has a National Health Service and Private medical facilities are the minority.

I think most medical care in the USA is funded by Insurance.....maybe a US citizen could clarify?

[hobbes]

Originally posted by Rat Faced@30 September 2003 - 00:42

France now is just following the american and english way

The American way and British way are totally different from each other...

The UK, like France, has a National Health Service and Private medical facilities are the minority.

I think most medical care in the USA is funded by Insurance.....maybe a US citizen could clarify?

Oh yes, and it is quite a bite every month, even for those who are young and healthy.

[Guillaume]

I don't know about the state of the english and american health system, cause I never had to go in a hospital ther, but what Leonidas meant, I guess, was that you've now got to spend a lot ( to be treated in a private clinic and/or pay the prescriptions) or wait a very long time (even in the emergency rooms!! ) to gain access to a decent treatment despite the original National Health Service

[leonidas]

Yes that's what I meant. I think in england you'll not get the same care wether you're in a private clinic paid by your own insurance, and in an public hospital. At least that's what I've heard and see on tv news and investigation french tv shows. Also , a english freind of my parents had to wait like 8 month for an important surgery.

[Tikibonbon]

*yawn* suckas can't take a little heat, just another day in the states.........

[j2k4]

Originally posted by hobbes+29 September 2003 - 18:50--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (hobbes @ 29 September 2003 - 18:50)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Rat Faced@30 September 2003 - 00:42

France now is just following the american and english way

The American way and British way are totally different from each other...

The UK, like France, has a National Health Service and Private medical facilities are the minority.

I think most medical care in the USA is funded by Insurance.....maybe a US citizen could clarify?

Oh yes, and it is quite a bite every month, even for those who are young and healthy. [/b][/quote]
I am alive because of the availability of cutting-edge medical care.

I am &#036;40,000 in debt because of the availablity of cutting-edge medical care.

I am glad to be alive in order to pay my debt.

That I am American into the bargain probably renders me irretrievably stupid in the eyes of some here, but there it is.

[Billy_Dean]

j2k4

That I am American into the bargain probably renders me irretrievably stupid in the eyes of some here, but there it is.

I wouldn&#39;t say irretrievably stupid, there&#39;s always hope.

[Rat Faced]

english freind of my parents had to wait like 8 month for an important surgery.

Depends on what you call "Important" surgery.

Im quite happy waiting a couple of months for a Hernia operation (as an example) so that someone that needs a heart bypass or kidney transplant goes 1st....its as it should be.

Its very rare for lifesaving operations to have a waiting list, unless its something outside the hospitals power...eg Lack of Doners, Conversly, non-life threatening operations do have a larger waiting list than anyone would like...

I have a great respect for the people that work for the NHS in the UK, the lack of investment that France is feeling now, started in 1979 in the UK....thats a lot of underinvestment to make up....

[leonidas]

Originally posted by Rat Faced@1 October 2003 - 18:43

english freind of my parents had to wait like 8 month for an important surgery.

Depends on what you call "Important" surgery.

Im quite happy waiting a couple of months for a Hernia operation (as an example) so that someone that needs a heart bypass or kidney transplant goes 1st....its as it should be.

Its very rare for lifesaving operations to have a waiting list, unless its something outside the hospitals power...eg Lack of Doners, Conversly, non-life threatening operations do have a larger waiting list than anyone would like...

I have a great respect for the people that work for the NHS in the UK, the lack of investment that France is feeling now, started in 1979 in the UK....thats a lot of underinvestment to make up....

Thanks to your dear margaret, I learnt that at my history-lessons in hight-school, and she did also kick down the workers syndicates and other things. Old Biach&#33;&#33;
Actually, I&#39;ve ask my mother, and it wasn&#39;t a surgery. The guy was indeed in the terminal phase of a cancer, and was expecting for a room to finish his life peacefully.