--- title: Healthcare: who pays when you are ill — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: You break your arm at football. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / Healthcare: who pays when you are ill # Healthcare: who pays when you are ill Lesson 20 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 24 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/0/) — You break your arm at football. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/1/) — Someone has to pay the X-ray, the cast and the doctor's time. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/2/) — The big question is who, and when: you at the hospital desk, an insurance plan you pay into every month, or everyone together through taxes before you ever got hurt. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/3/) — In the UK, the NHS gives most care free when you use it, because taxes already paid for it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/4/) — In the US, most people rely on health insurance, which pays part of the bills. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/5/) — Canada, Australia and Ireland each mix things in their own way. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/7/) — "Free" care still costs money, so waiting lists can grow long; insurance gives choice, but bills can be very large for people without it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/8/) — Free care for everyone and fast care for everyone are both hard to do at once. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/9/) — That is why people argue: about more money or better organisation, about public or private help, about who pays which share. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/10/) — Even doctors and nurses sometimes disagree with the government about pay. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/11/) — People talk about it in all sorts of slang: a Scottish gran calls a child a "bairn" and the "wee" cast a small one, in Wales "lush" means lovely, an Irish dad says "grand" for fine, and a young American might call adult paperwork "adulting" and feel "salty" (annoyed) about a bill. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/12/) — In the UK the NHS, set up in 1948, gives most healthcare free at the point of use, paid for by taxes. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/13/) — It was reported that NHS waiting lists grew very long, especially after the COVID pandemic, with millions waiting for treatment; A&E is the hospital department for urgent problems. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/14/) — Some say the NHS needs much more money; others say it needs big changes and more help from private companies, and some worry that this takes staff away. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/15/) — In the US most people get health insurance through work, buy it themselves, or get it from government programmes for older or poorer people; insurance pays much of the bill, and you may have to pay the rest yourself. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/16/) — The Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, became law in 2010; it made insurers cover people who were already ill, with a pre-existing condition, and helped many more people get insured. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/17/) — Some say Obamacare protected sick people and helped millions; others say it raised costs for some and put too many rules on businesses. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/18/) — Australia's public system, Medicare, is paid by taxes and covers much of the cost of seeing a doctor, and at many doctors the patient pays nothing at the visit. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/19/) — Canada's public system, paid by taxes and run by each province, covers doctor visits and hospital care; it was reported that waits for some specialists and surgeries can be long. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/21/) — Devolution means parts of the UK, like Scotland and Wales, make some of their own decisions, including about health. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/22/) — It was reported that in many parts of England it became very hard to find an NHS dentist taking new patients, so some people paid privately and some went without. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/23/) — It was reported that resident doctors in England went on strike several times over pay, saying it had fallen behind prices; the government said it could not afford what they asked, and emergency care continued. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/24/) — In Ireland a visit to a GP, the family doctor, is not free for everyone; it was reported that young children and some other groups can see a GP for free. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/25/) — People disagree about how much healthcare should be public or private, and many countries mix both. - ← previous: [Immigration and borders](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/) - next →: [Climate: hot summers and hot arguments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)