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[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 160 points 3 days ago

Well yeah but you have those long wait times to deal with right?

Here in America, I only had to wait 4 weeks for a video conference (in-person would have been 6 weeks) with my primary care physician so she could recommend me to a specialist that doesn't have any openings until mid-August. Thank goodness I live in the land of the free where I only have to wait 3 months to see a doctor who has about a 20% chance to cancel on me last minute due to a "scheduling issues" and leave me hanging for another 4-8 weeks.

AND I get to pay for some of it out of pocket despite paying monthly for better than average medical insurance!

USA #1

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

It seems like our socialized healthcare doesn't cover our sarcasm detector organ 😅

[-] exanime@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Canada here... yes wait times are a bitch

But it must be clarified this is not a result of socialized medicine... this is mostly a result of Politicians (largely Conservatives) starving the system as hard as they can just to justify Private Medicine as the only solution.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Just to be clear, you should have read my post in the most sarcastic voice you are capable of. I don't think 3 months is an acceptable amount of time to have to wait for a doctor's appointment and I think it's absolutely insane that I have to pay as much as I do for insurance and still have to pay something out of pocket for the visit. The only thing keeping me in this country is my partner's fear of starting over in an unfamiliar place.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

You say this as though wait times aren’t a problem in America, but they are. Funnily enough, it’s one of the main arguments people use against socialized medicine. It is consistently the most disappointing thing ever; that people refuse to lift themselves out of their shit filled pools.

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[-] PopShark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh yeah I tried to schedule an intake appointment with an allergist in early March and their earliest available was mid July lol

Edit: Grammar again lol

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 17 points 3 days ago

I've opted to wait a year to change insurance companies so I could resume seeing my old doc instead of starting the process as a new patient under someone else, because honestly I'd be seen at a comparative time.

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[-] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 193 points 3 days ago

Most provincial governments in Canada are too trying to choke off social medicine (i.e. Canadian health care system) so corporates can come in and do a “better job”. Conservatives are pretty blatant about it.

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Similar here in the UK. Its like, yeah, even if the model you're proposing was better (it isnt), you can tell for a fact that its for the benefit of the wealthy and at the expense of the 99%, simply by whos saying it.

I mean, its like taking parental advice from a convicted paedophile. In the same way, why would anyone take advice on socialised medicine from someone you know is trying to fuck your socialised healthcare system.

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 47 points 3 days ago

Yep. Alberta is currently breaking up Alberta Health Services in a clear "Divide & Conquer" attempt.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Meanwhile, here in the states, thanks to financial help from my mother, the over $10,000 in medical debt we've racked up over the past year is less than $10,000!

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I hit my maximum out of pocket for the year.

Our system is so fucked up I'm actively wanting all the major medical issues coming over the next decade to hit all at once right now.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I watched Hank Green's stand up today and he let out the secret to cancer in the US. It's the one thing the health insurance industry doesn't want you to know! Just make sure to get your cancer at the start of the year so you can max that deductible and get free healthcare the rest of the year!

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

You joke but....

I was in a benefits meeting a few years ago led by the insurance rep for our employee health coverage.

Deductibles came up.

I raised my hand and asked, "So if I go skiing for Christmas and snap my femur on December 26, it behooves me to delay any treatment until January 1, right?"

She didn't miss a beat and said, "Yes, that's correct."

There was a stunned silence in the room from that one.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yup. National coping humor. But there's nothing wrong with the US, really! I swear!

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Free healthcare

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 days ago

When I got married, the US medical system gave me a wedding present of about $2k in medical debt for my wife's sprained ankle. Was a great way to help newlyweds not afford to keep the (rental) house heated during the following PNW Fall/Winter.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 62 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Happened to my 12 year old a couple of months ago. Our hospital bill was the equivalent of ~15$. My dad went through a year of cancer treatment a little over a decade ago. His hospital bill was a jaw dropping ~15$ equivalent as well.

It keeps the hypochondriacs from wasting resources.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 3 days ago

My dad had a cardiac arrest a few years ago. Resuscitation, ambulance, two hospitals, a week in a coma, another week recovering.

I think the biggest expense was putting their cat in the cattery for a week.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 9 points 3 days ago

Come to think of it, my kids were all born at large hospitals in large cities. The biggest expense for all of them was parking.

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[-] CaptainKickass@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

Cue Americans angry that other countries don't force their citizens into bankruptcy for getting sick in 3... 2...

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago

Nah, I just get annoyed when people rub their free healthcare that we already know about in our faces. Especially on a site like this where most everyone agrees that the US healthcare system is trash.

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[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Good too see that guy kicking around. If he's the one I'm thinking of, he ended up going to Ukraine at the start of the war to help out. Ended up along the border I think offering to help give first aid and be a gopher essentially

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[-] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 28 points 3 days ago

At first I read it as “y’all Mexicans” and was a lil confused

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