Dear American neighbours,

I have a relative who lives independently with his who was 97 years old when he fell and broke his hip. The next day he was in the hospital

And a day later he had a hip replacement operation. And next month he will celebrate his 100th birthday while still living independently with his wife.

One cannot imagine a US insurance company authorizing the large expenditure of a hip operation to be done on a person of that age. In the US my relative would have suffered in bed for a year in a hospital bed and died.

This talk in the States about government health care targeting aged people for poor service and early deaths is wrong. It is private health care in the US that does it.

Daniel Henshaw