About Us

Kasia Foch lived in the Netherlands for 3 years and for the past 18 years in England. She has benefitted greatly from the national health systems in these countries. Although she considers herself to be generally healthy, she has had some respiratory conditions (among other issues) in the past and has received excellent treatment for these free of charge under the health systems in both countries. She worries about eventually returning back to live in Northern California with her preconditions, finding health care coverage and paying for it.

Portia Kamons has high blood pressure which has been aggravated by the partisan debate over health care, but she is being well looked after by the UK's national health service.  She grew up in a rural town on the border of Pennsylvania and West Virginia where her father was a country doctor serving a population primarily supported by "public assistance."  He delivered babies, made house calls, and knew all of his patients by their first names.  This experience has informed her life-long view of doctors and the medical profession.  In 1991, after 10 years of living in New York City, she moved to London where she has worked and raised her family ever since.  Her local GP is one of her heroes.