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.
Yep. Alberta is currently breaking up Alberta Health Services in a clear "Divide & Conquer" attempt.
Canadian voters do a good job at supporting conservatives.
I guess another warning is to keep your eye on public education too
And utilities and transport and prisons, no public responsibility should have private interests in control.
Hopefully Labour will do something revitalise my NHS which has been absolutely raped by the greedy criminals current in charge.
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
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.
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.
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.
It keeps the hypochondriacs from wasting resources.
Are you sure? If I was a hypochondriac, the $60/mo "Medical doctor confirms you're fine every Wednesday" plan sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Cue Americans angry that other countries don't force their citizens into bankruptcy for getting sick in 3... 2...
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.
The relatively small population of Lemmy makes these kinds of posts feel even more like a circlejerk than on other social media.
The odds of reaching someone who hasn't heard this beaten to death are so slim.
We feel do completely overshadowed by American sports and culture that we take what few victories we have and run with them.
At first I read it as “y’all Mexicans” and was a lil confused
Mexicans do public health care tho
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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