Monday, September 13, 2010

National Health

Illness strikes at rich and poor alike. But it has always been easier to avoid it or at least to buy a cure, if you are rich.
There was a terrible plague in 1665. In London seven thousand people died in one week alone.
But many of the rich simply moved to the country. John Milton, for example, went away to Buckinghamshire and wrote Paradise Lost.
Today good health is not reserved for those with money.
Under the National Health Service nobody pays their doctor. Medicine is very cheap and hospital treatment is absolutely free for everybody. And visitors to Britain can take advantage of this if their country has a reciprocal agreement.

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