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Here in Poland we have mandatory health insurance, usually paid in one bill with the VAT tax, paid by employer for employees, so they don't even know about that money and don't think about it, and that money just goes into the government budget, and doesn't have much to do with the money they actually pay the hospitals etc to run. As a result, every doctor that knows anything is in UK right now, working for 5 times the pay (and doctors here are only paid if government has enough money, which doesn't always happen). I have to pay that mandatory health insurance money, but I'm not crazy enough to go to public health service. I prefer to pay in cash and choose my private health care. No insurances either - I keep money reserve on my bank account for that purpose.
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