In England, Canada, etc., what happens if a doctor refuses to see government patients? Does he lose his license? Or are doctors forced to work for the national health system, as government employees? If a patient could afford to pay the fees of a private doctor, I’m wondering if there would be any in private practice and therefore whether the patient would have that choice. I would love to hear how these matters are handled in any country with nationalized medicine, and hear from patients, whether satisfied or dissatisfied. Also I’d like to know if a patient can still buy his own health insurance–that is, whether it’s available. Or does nationalized medicine wipe out that part of the insurance industry? Thanks.
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the doctor is a private person…the government just pays for you to go to him, they don’t give the doc a salary. he charges the patient and the government pays the patient bills.
if i was a doc i could set up a practice where i pleased
In a hospital is different, they are given a giving a salary and such, cuz they work for the hospital, which the government owns
In nations with national healthcare, there still is private healthcare too, and private hospitals
for person below….we have a thing called a Medicare card, Medicare is the name of our national healthcare system.
non-citizens can get one, idk what the law id about it, but someone like a tourist cant get one.
ohh, and both your boarding nations already have free healthcare…so i don’t know why they would
I’d like to know how these nations deal with non-citizens. We have tens of millions of non-citizen immigrants in the US. So far, no one is seriously talking about what we will do with these people is we switch to a single payer system. Consequently, how will we deal with the millions more that will flood across the border for free healthcare, none of whom will pay for it, US taxpayers footing the bill.
Sure. Even with national health care you can purchase any care you wish to with any doctor or hospital. Cash talks.
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The UK has lots of private hospitals and private doctors, London’s Harley Street being world famous for it’s private physicians.http://www.harleystreetguide.co.uk/
Doctors don’t have to see NHS patients however only 3% of GP’s operate outside the NHS and most of these work for non-profit making private medical group BUPA.http://wellness.bupa.co.uk/for-you/your-…
In terms of specialists, it would be virtually impossible to work completely outside the NHS as all the major teaching hospitals are operated by NHS in partnership with University Medical Schools. Many Consultants therefore work for the NHS but also see private patients.
The private sector often works in partnership with the NHS providing contracted out services and Independent Sector Treatment Centres and under the new NHS Choices scheme NHS patients can opt to be treated in participating private hospitals.http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/choices/pag…http://www.ramsayhealth.co.uk/essential_…http://www.spirehealthcare.com/Patient-I…http://www.nuffieldhealth.com/Individual…http://www.bmihealthcare.co.uk/bmi/choos…http://www.cancerpartnersuk.org/http://www.yorkon.co.uk/shepton-treatmen…http://www.one20group.com/pages/healthca…