Its in... Mid 30s implanted with Rigicon Infla10 AX on NHS UK

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2 days Pre op. I had a pretty decent fairly girthy dick. I liked it... If only it worked.. I measured from actual shaft start here. Bone pressed I was into 7 inches and probably about 7 with hair shaved.

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4 days post op. Im being a little generous with the measuring tape here could easily pull it back another inch bringing me to 4.5 inches which would be more consistent with other pics.

That cut was apparently an accident during the procedure.... How that could have happened I don't understand and so I'll be asking that in follow up.

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4 days post op side. Not too happy with the shape and glans position here

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5 weeks post op. Having to hold it down because implant angles at about 2 o clock. Note this is without arousal or engorgement.

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5 weeks post op side. Still some way to go with girth and glans position.

Again, this is without arousal or engorgement.

[LetoMan]

The key point here is universal free healthcare.

Just weighing in here with some perspective. The UK and the US took different approaches to healthcare post war, that can’t be changed now. I don’t think anyone can say which system is better, there are tradeoffs in both.

But what I want to point out is that there is no such thing as “free” healthcare. All healthcare is paid for, the question is how it is paid for. In the UK you pay for healthcare by paying taxes. As a result, a higher percentage of UK’s GDP goes to tax, about 35% vs 28% in the US.

In the US healthcare is mostly paid for by insurance contributions, but a significant portion is still paid for by the government, through programs like Medicare (covers retirees) and Medicaid (which covers poor people unable to afford insurance, such as disabled folks). The government also mostly covers the cost to hospitals of people who lack any coverage at all who nonetheless receive uncompensated services, as hospitals can’t turn away emergency patients for inability to pay. In that sense, the US also provides “universal” healthcare, in that everyone is essentially covered but are covered for different things depending on their insurance coverage, though a certain level of coverage is provided to everyone.

The frustrations with the system are thus different. In the US the frustrations are at the insurer level: denial of coverage, high deductibles and co-pays (which comes from reduced premiums). In the UK the frustrations are at the provider level: long waits, rationed care, terrible food.

The one big difference between the UK and the US is that the US spends dramatically more per person on healthcare, more than twice as much. And the difference is mostly accounted for by prices of care. In the US doctors are paid twice as much, pharmaceuticals are essentially twice as much, etc.

The UK and many other developed countries get away with this by having single payer systems. Doctor salaries are set by the NHS, not by a competitive market. Same thing with pharmaceutical prices.

That’s a clear advantage to the UK: cheaper healthcare. But they are getting the benefit of the R&D that is largely subsidized by the US market.

Some of the trade offs: the US gets a lot of the best doctors in the world as a result of salaries here. And access to cutting edge treatments and pharmaceuticals is more accessible here, as single payer systems often restrict them or can’t negotiate for them.

All that to say: it’s pretty hard to say which system is “better” for consumers of healthcare. The UK is cheaper, but that shows up in the quality of care (particularly in the more complex matters like oncology). The US essentially subsidizes innovation for everyone. Meanwhile, the US system is expensive and byzantine, involving insurers, providers and the government.

But there is absolutely no such thing as free healthcare.