Anymore, the wait times in the US are just as atrocious while still costing orders of magnitude more. There’s some specialties we’ve needed where the doctor just told us “you can get on the list, but don’t hold your breath”.
Not to mention how health insurance companies can overrule doctors on medical issues and make final decisions on what procedures the patient can actually get.
I know someone whose kid became really irritable and started having aggressive episodes after a head injury. Insurance doesn’t think an MRI is medically relevant.
It makes me so mad when anglos try to gaslight the success of obamacare and how many millions of additional people are “covered” by it.
My boss told me today she had to wait 12 hours in the ER in the US the other day.
I left the ER after 8 hours of holding my finger together. Big gash real deep, ended up going to Walmart and buying super glue, butterfly bandages, and a stint. Was with my dad (I was 16) and he still touted this is best country on earth.
Could someone with a higher resolution screen please transcribe that watermark text on the bottom right? It looks interesting.
“Paid for by Turning Point Action (tpaction.com) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.” - Watermark in lower right
ugh didn’t notice, updated to remove them, I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day
I genuinely thought you were taking the piss on what the right claims anything other than private healthcare is.
A two mile ambulance ride, consisting of a the ride and an IV, cost me over $7k once.
I recall reading how people in US now prefer taking uber to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance.
Yeah people will also check hospital websites and consult their social circles before picking a hospital to drive to, while in crisis. Because you also have to consider how ambulances will drive you to the nearest hospital regardless of whether it’s any good or if they’ll be able to treat you there. If they can’t, then you’ll be forced to take another ambulance ride to transfer to a hospital that can (and not for free ofc).
It makes sense to do this for liability reasons and for health reasons, but god damn ambulances should not cost money. All healthcare shouldn’t cost money…
It’s not just “can this hospital take care of you” but “is this hospital ‘in network’ for you”. If you’ve got full coverage but are unconscious and somebody takes you to the wrong place you might as well not have any insurance at all.
I’m insured through my job, and they have a $500 deductible for ambulance rides. I can uber to the hospital for 1/10th that price!
Imagine even remembering all the insurance shitshow lists when you are in pain and require help. Private healthcare is one of the most ghoulish things i can even imagine and i read multiple dystopian stories presenting much less worse things as total humanitarian disasters.
Damn this made me laugh
“I need stitches”
“OK!”