Property News · January 13, 2015

Too many choices, high costs and bureaucracy: British expats grade American healthcare system 'a pain in the arse'


Moving to the US for work has advantages for British citizens. The healthcare system is not one of them. It’s so bad that some expats fly home for treatmentBritish couple ‘face $200,000 hospital bill’ after baby born early in New YorkScottish-born David Gray, a creative director based in Brooklyn, was “doubled-up coughing in the snow” when he fell out of love with the US healthcare system. Gray, on his employer-provided health insurance, needed a US doctor for a checkup. A colleague recommended a doctor’s office housed in “a really grand building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Full floor, incredible views – it looked like a movie version of a New York doctor’s,” he says. “It was just about the friendliest, fanciest place I’d ever been.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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