Gordon Brown's Speech (Free universal checkups for all over 40s)

[SamuelRSmith]

Kasz216 said:

SamuelRSmith said:

Kasz216 said:

No one has free universal checkups for people over 40?

Shoudln't that be part of universal healthcare? I mean preventitive healthcare is just cost effective.

Free Checkups should be common sense.

 

 Well, basically, as it stands, you can only really go to a GP if you feel you have something wrong with you, and the examine for free (at point of sale).

This means that you can go and get a checkup for the sake of having a checkup just in case anything is wrong with you.

Which is really the way to do things... at least somewhat right?  I mean isn't it advised to have like... a checkup every 6th months or so even if you feel fine?

 

 

 Well, personally, I have never heard that recommendation in my life, though that does make sense.

As it stands, you can currently get check ups for specific things, like men often go in for prostate examinations, and women go in for smears, as well as other cancer checkups, and such. But these universal checkups, so they check everything in one hit. Before, they were only really offered to the elderly, long-term-ill, and babies/toddlers. Now, it's being expanded to all over-40s, over the years I see this age dropping fairly rapidly perhaps being universal to all within the next decade.