I know NHS isnt perfect, but...

No one is even reading my posts anymore.

I'm reading your posts and they don't make sense. First you go on a tirade about how you can't get treatment, then continue to romanticise the NHS, wax lyrical about you can put up with all the ills of the UK so long as you can get treatment for your wife who has a life threatening infection. Then within 24 hours of you registering an account, you find a doctor and get your wife seen, despite the fact that there hasn't been more than an hour between your posting on here so where you found the time is a mystery. Then it turns out there is no known cure for a staff infection so there is nothing you can do but you still insist on moving to the UK anyway rather than saving money and getting proper insurance.

It sounds utterly confusing and unbelievable, and if it is indeed true, unbelievably foolish to seek to immigrate before seeking 'urgent' medical treatment. But I've said my piece and I'm finding the whole situation increasingly sad so I'll just leave the conversation now, but I hope you get your priorities sorted out

if its a resistant strain, wouldn't amputation be the only cure then?  Wouldn't that be better than tens of thousands in bills?

Also, it doesnt add up that your family would allow you to stay and save for a ludacris move halfway around the world, but not to save for treatment?  

You live in a small town in texas, surely even moving to houston or dallas would greatly improve your chances at changing this around?


People are trying to help you jedi, they've suggested a million ideas on how to help that doesnt involve a lengthy and costly move across the world (a cost which may even exeed the medical treament in the states).  But youre not listening.  You want to move to the uk/ireland.  I get that.  However, the reason you have stated is the need for medical attention, but as many people here are suggesting, you'd be better off trying to seek help in the states.  It's not the answer you want to hear, but youre not even acknowledging some very well thought out Ideas being presented.

The grass will always be greener, you need to realize a move is going to worsen the quality of your life at this point, not make it better.  The costs, the trying to find a job (which as others have stated you CANNOT find ahead of time... you couldnt do interviews, and even skilled employees such as doctors get rejected for working visas in the middle of the process), the get established, and then on top of it you will have zero quality of life because youll have a very hard time finding a salary that will match your standard of living you take for granted in the USA.  

Hell, I heard on the news of people giving fake names and fake details in the ER to get treated who dont have insurance.  Im not saying its the right thing to do, but there again I dont blame the person stealing a loaf of bread to feed their starving kids either....

No one is even reading my posts anymore.

That could be because you seem unwilling to listen to anything negative.  You are being given a wealth of information on the plight of people with diabetes in the UK, again are not thanking anyone for taking the time to try to help and inform you, and then are getting quite snotty when you don't hear what you want to.  You are also being given info on how to perhaps improve your situation whilst in the US and are unwilling to listen to this either.

Things are bad for you and your wife, but, guess what...you are not the only ones.  People began by offering you support and assistance but it becomes frustrating when posts go ignored, advice unheeded, and when the person asking the question seems do dogmatically fixed in his mind that everything in the UK will be rosy and refuses to listen to alternate opinions.

Also, you are rather annoying UK tax payers by suggesting that you will come to the UK simply to use the NHS, without having ever contributed to the economy.  We have a health system which is free at the point of delivery, but we also have a health system which is deep financial crisis.  Waiting lists are long, beds are scarce, wards are dirty, doctors and nurses are overworked and exhausted, because there is more money coming out of the system than there is coming in, and this is due party because of an aging population, and partly because of health tourism (and partly because of decades of financial mismanagement). 

As for the migration aspects...well, you can do it, but really, it is still massively expensive and time consuming.  While you can get here once you have the Irish passport, it is not as easy for your wife, and if it is suspected that you are not going to contribute or cannot afford to support yourselves, your wife will be refused entry.  You say that you have done a lot of research on this, but seriously, your knowledge of the immigration aspects, the NHS, the treatments available for those with diabetes in the UK would suggest that this was an idea you had a week ago after watching 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.  You need to think a lot more, and read all that people have said more carefully and with a more open mind.

You also need to stop taking it personally when we have disagreed with you, and you have to accept that those who have made this exact move (or those who were born here) do actually know more about this than you do.

You also need to stop sending unsolicited personal PM's, as that just makes people annoyed.



Vicky

San Fransisco is actually implementing Universal Health Care for those who live in the city limits.

So why not move to San Francisco?

Right, we are moving from giving advice to something a little less savoury and those that have been here for a while should bloody well know better.   As such, this topic is now locked.

Jedi, you have been given some pretty sound advice, albeit mixed with some snarkiness.  Please re-read the posts where people give you their personal experiences with the NHS.  Also look through the Healthcare area of the forum for more insight into the NHS.

I will also encourage you to look through other areas of the forum where people discuss adjusting to the UK.  It's easy for some, harder for others.

Above all, research and be prepared.

Here endth the global mod lecture.