02-07-2015, 11:40 AM
I'm American but don't currently live in the USA, so best to leave to others the detailed questions you ask...however, you don't want 'American style' health insurance...as it is health insecurity only. It is very complex, but many Americans are not covered AT ALL [even those employed] and more are only partly covered and either pay punitive 'co-payments' or can easily reach the limit of coverage and have to pay out of pocket beyond that. Add to this, that most un- or under-insured in the USA have to resort to going to emergency rooms at hospitals and waiting all day - hoping to be seen at all, now hospitals have in most places the legal right to charge for fees and collect on it by taking your property and often do. It is a nightmare equal to third-world nations and nothing any sane developed nation would downgrade to from a National Healthcare Program. The only ones who benefit are doctors and the medical-hospital complex [and bribed politicians]...those that suffer are all but the rich who don't need insurance.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass