ouch! at least you are alive and recovering. its good to hear that in spite of what is often said about American health and social care, wherever you are there are folk who care about helping out a sick person over and above making a profit.
Although in our country and the rest of Europe you would have also been treated well, there may not always be the resources for you to recover at home immediately available and you could even end up at temporarily the “old peoples home” for age 80-100, and only after recovering to a certain level are you let back home. Especially if you had the “harder” pain medications, this is so you can’t hoard or divert them.
BTW though many Americans say our healthcare system in England and Europe is “socialist”, this isn’t true. Its a mixed public and private sector system (the mix does vary depending which political parties are in power). I work as an engineer for a private healthcare organisation which runs old peoples homes (I fix computers, telephones and other stuff sometimes including medical equipment) and our patients are funded by both the NHS and their families through private contributions.
