So, is this what universal coverage buys you?
More than 70,000 Britons will have treatment abroad this year ““ a figure that is forecast to rise to almost 200,000 by the end of the decade. Patients needing major heart surgery, hip operations and cataracts are using the internet to book operations to be carried out thousands of miles away.
(via Andrew Sullivan)





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