National Health Service

Living in the United Kingdom has its benefits, chief of which would be the free health care offered by the National Health Service (NHS). I don’t have to worry about health insurance (unless I want to seek private health care, more on that later). I don’t have to worry if I have an emergency, as [...]

When it was announced we would be called to the polls in the United Kingdom once more, this time on December 12, I felt the usual irritation about an unplanned election being called. Still, I realized the importance of this election. It was certainly the most important election in my lifetime so far. The next [...]

I’m lucky to be here. I remember waking up in the ICU and after that awful tube was removed from my throat, like a reverse “facehugger,” a national health service (NHS) nurse asked me if I had a picture of the newborn daughter I had been suddenly separated from a day after her birth. • What [...]

I know it is a little crass and probably the reason why it is the unspoken cost, but lets talk about money — cold, hard, cash. No one ever really talks about the monetary cost of being ill. Of course if you have an acute illness then this cost is at most the cost of [...]