chuckles in universal healthcare
Yeah but you might have to wait on a list to get care while we get to instantly know we can’t get care
Hey, don’t short-sell your system. From what I hear you too usually get the pleasure of waiting several months.
Unless you have like the best insurance that money can buy, we still have wait times in the US.
Coworker here in US had some strange neurological issues(vertigo among other stuff) and has had to wait months between visits to see a specialist. He’s had to WFH several times because driving is dangerous. Of course along with the waits he also is spending thousands on the visit, iirc he almost hit his ~$6000 out of pocket max this year.
Sometimes you get care and you learn a year later that you can’t afford it and your life is over.
cries in capitalism
I want to emphasize that insurance does not function to GRANT healthcare but to DENY it. Doctors grant healthcare as providers. When they prescribe it, they’ve granted it. Then insurance steps in and says, “wait a minute.” Their only function is to deny medical care. Not pay for it - the patient does that through premiums etc. To deny it. So why do we need a healthcare DENIAL system?
The answer for why corporations need private insurance denials, is because of Hot Coffee, Bleeding Edge, Erin Brokovich - we could class action sue over the bad and contaminated products companies sell us, because it would be able to be detected. Flint, MI, was caught by testing a kid on Medicare - because they have access to healthcare. The FDA, USDA, etc should actually pay for Medicare for all to GUARANTEE their work in making sure products are safe imo. Why should I have to pay for the government’s failure to do their job? They should guarantee it and track it so they can do their jobs.
I hate that the US has such a shit health system just because it makes Canadians content with our current dysfunctional system. Like yeah, at least we’re far better than the US, true, but why must we even compare ourselves to that train wreck of a country
As someone stuck in this train wreck of a country, please don’t compare yourselves to us. It makes us feel worse when everybody stares. :(
(In all seriousness, though, please feel free to annex us.)
he is seeing a doctor for his eye relocation surgery
Too bad that’s cosmetic.
Oof
