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Uhh, hate to break it to ya, but even with insurance its not all roses and sunshine in the USA, you can easily go 6 months waiting for a knee replacement here.
by trome 10y ago
Uhh, hate to break it to ya, but even with insurance its not all roses and sunshine in the USA, you can easily go 6 months waiting for a knee replacement here. Watched a family member go through 4 over the past decade, and its a slow process no matter the insurance provider.
Plus, hospitals here on the West Coast have amped up doing a bunch of skeezy stuff recently, you could easily end up with a non-functional leg at a place like Swedish or Providence (two major hospital systems):
https://projects.seattletimes.com/2017/quantity-of-care/hospital/ https://projects.seattletimes.com/2017/quantity-of-care/hosp...
- magic_beans 10y agoHow does one person need 4 knee replacements in 10 years?
- runamok 10y agoBecause American health care payments are based on quantity and not quality? ;-)
- trome 10y agoPartially, the upstream vendor (Stryker) made some defective knee replacement joints that wear out prematurely, causing pain and issues walking. Opening the knee back up and replacing most of the parts with better designed parts is what has to be done after a decade, then you get to sit there for months and heal.
- trome 10y agoPoor post-op care for the initial two, combined with Stryker making some very low quality knee replacements. Thus why you'd need another knee replacement after a decade
- magic_beans 10y agoThat's devastating :(
- zaccus 10y agoAggressive rheumatoid arthritis could be one reason.