{"id":462,"date":"2010-02-01T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2010-02-01T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:35:00","slug":"escaping-to-england-to-find-treatment-she-can-afford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Escaping To England To Find Treatment She Can Afford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/widgets\/widget.html\">From Kaiser Health News Today<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes my husband Roger gripes about what he calls the British \u201cnanny state.\u201d So much is done for the English, he maintains, they can\u2019t think for themselves anymore. Showers, for instance, are statutorily equipped with automatic shut-off valves on the thermostats. In case the water gets too hot. I remind him that the opposite of the nanny state is me in the U.S. with breast cancer and no steady job and insurance. <\/p>\n<p>I had some wonderful doctors in New York, caring and helpful. But I also had to fight with my hospital there to get the tests I needed, and several of the specialists were so difficult to deal with I chose medical protocols to avoid them\u2014no matter what the best option for treatment was. What I really notice about the health care providers in England is that they seem to have more than half a second for me \u2013 and they actually listen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A nice piece about the nightmare that medicine is <em>not<\/em> in England. She left the US to go to England because she couldn&#8217;t afford the US health care system, and found out there were other bonuses to a differenet model of financing health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Kaiser Health News Today: Sometimes my husband Roger gripes about what he calls the British \u201cnanny state.\u201d So much is done for the English, he maintains, they can\u2019t think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=462\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Escaping To England To Find Treatment She Can Afford&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,68,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-off","category-financial-costs","category-uk-nhs"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}