Before y'all ask, I'm not american, I'm mexican.
The reason of why I'm asking this question in this subreddit it's because my (corrupt and horrible) president AMLO has prometing us many times in these 6 years of his (awful) goverment that we gonna have a good healthcare system as the danish one.
As you can imagine.....We're SO far from having at least a decent healthcare system like the european countries, so, after this explication, I want to ask you:
How good do you think it's your healthcare system?
What do you think yout sytem fails and in what ways?
Did you have only good experiences or you had a bad experience with it?
I would really blessed to read your answers :)
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The original was posted on /r/denmark by /u/Albert_2004 at 2024-03-15 02:48:18+00:00.
Moebius2 at 2024-03-15 03:22:11+00:00 ID:
kuxvnskI'm quite young so luckily I haven't spent too much in the healthcare system. In practical terms I can get a 15-minute meeting with my doctor within a week free of charge. If I had some psychological problems, he would first take a blood test and give me some vitamins, but if it didnt quite work, then he can get me along to psychiatrist. That is where the system breaks down, with 40 week waittimes to get one (public, I think you can find a private one to speed it up).
As a kid I was quite good at finding light poles with my forehead, and despite sometimes spending some hours in the hospital waiting for care, I got good care eventually. I have no idea how long you have to wait in other countries, but here it kinda gets sorted by how bad it is, so a kid with a broken arm would have to wait longer than a guy with a gunshot. And similarly I think a non-critical surgery can have very long wait times, but if you got cancer you will quickly get the needed medical attention.
I have no clue on how this differs in other parts of the world, but once you scanned the yellow healthcare card, nobody cares about costs. Doctors are still expected to do cheap treatments before expensive ones. So even if lets say I think I have illness A (but the cost of the test is high), they will test for B and C if they think B and C are more likely and the tests are cheaper. Then if that returns positive, they will eventually test for illness A. A cruel example I've heard is that every woman aged 16-45 with a stomach ache gets a pregnancy test as the first thing, but i dont quite know if it is true