Being healthy again, PRICELESS.
I'm seriously so bloody annoyed with public healthcare at this point I'm never going to vote Democrat, EVER.
The United Kingdom (1 pound equals two dollars)
- Doctor's visit = 40 pounds
- Test results from my stool sample which I got back in 3 days = free
- 2 sets of antibiotics = 5 pounds a piece
(Okay, I have nothing bad to say about the UK really, I'm just using them as a monetary comparison against France. The UK doctor was totally nice, diagnosed me properly, gave me an appropriate medication, changed it when I needed it changed and that was that. Yeah, 50 pounds, but it was worth it.)
France (1 euro equals $1.35)
- Normal doctor's visit = 21 euros
- House call doctor visit = 70 euros
- All perscriptions prescribed by the doctors = 35 euros
- Test results from my second stool sample which I got back after a week = 89 euros
Listen up France, you land of national health care, land of not being able to buy Tylenol over the counter, land of going to the doctor for anything that even potentially ails one's beleaguered French body. (Why are they beleaguered? Because they're French! And if you are beleaguered, what do you do? Go to the doctor!) Well look, when Americans who are genetically predisposed by their insurance companies to not eat doctor's visits like bonbons walk into your office and say they're sick, they mean it. And they don't mean it in a week, or last month, they mean NOW. I'm so done with the entire lackadaisical ridiculousness that is French healthcare. Nothing should ever, ever take a week and then cost me 89 euros. I was healthy again before I even got my results back! God, if anything is going to keep me healthy this last month it's going to be my pure hatred of the French healthcare system*.
* It should be noted that as a student studying abroad, I am covered by French social security so approximately half of all medical expenditures are eventually reimbursed. But that still means I've spent over 100 euros in medical care in the past week. And I know like, if I was a real adult and paying insurance that would probably be the price of my insurance per month or something, but I'm not an adult and I'm extremely annoyed at how much money I've paid in medical bills in the past week.
The United Kingdom (1 pound equals two dollars)
- Doctor's visit = 40 pounds
- Test results from my stool sample which I got back in 3 days = free
- 2 sets of antibiotics = 5 pounds a piece
(Okay, I have nothing bad to say about the UK really, I'm just using them as a monetary comparison against France. The UK doctor was totally nice, diagnosed me properly, gave me an appropriate medication, changed it when I needed it changed and that was that. Yeah, 50 pounds, but it was worth it.)
France (1 euro equals $1.35)
- Normal doctor's visit = 21 euros
- House call doctor visit = 70 euros
- All perscriptions prescribed by the doctors = 35 euros
- Test results from my second stool sample which I got back after a week = 89 euros
Listen up France, you land of national health care, land of not being able to buy Tylenol over the counter, land of going to the doctor for anything that even potentially ails one's beleaguered French body. (Why are they beleaguered? Because they're French! And if you are beleaguered, what do you do? Go to the doctor!) Well look, when Americans who are genetically predisposed by their insurance companies to not eat doctor's visits like bonbons walk into your office and say they're sick, they mean it. And they don't mean it in a week, or last month, they mean NOW. I'm so done with the entire lackadaisical ridiculousness that is French healthcare. Nothing should ever, ever take a week and then cost me 89 euros. I was healthy again before I even got my results back! God, if anything is going to keep me healthy this last month it's going to be my pure hatred of the French healthcare system*.
* It should be noted that as a student studying abroad, I am covered by French social security so approximately half of all medical expenditures are eventually reimbursed. But that still means I've spent over 100 euros in medical care in the past week. And I know like, if I was a real adult and paying insurance that would probably be the price of my insurance per month or something, but I'm not an adult and I'm extremely annoyed at how much money I've paid in medical bills in the past week.
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