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High quality when an American is in the room or high quality all the time? My experience with family members and their friends, who live in countries with many

High quality when an American is in the room or high quality all the time? My experience with family members and their friends, who live in countries with many social services, is that they only call them high quality when Americans are present. The rest of the time you'd think they were being marched to the gulag when trying to make use of said services.

jorblumesea 4y ago
Americans oversell the quality of their healthcare. American healthcare is actually just as bad as "socialized medicine", we just spend more on it and have less access. "But you have to wait months for a specialist in Canada!" That's different from the US system, how? Have you ever tried to get appointments? We're also booking many months out. "Want this live saving surgery? Let's see if insurance will cover it first, you might impact our profits. " K... It all sucks, but at least everyone gets it in some places as opposed to the system working for a privileged few. Ironically, the US does have socialized medicine, it's called Medicare, which is wildly popular. The US healthcare system is one of the strongest arguments for government take over.
- xenospn 4y ago
  Top-tier medical care is useless if you can’t use it! This is a vital point many Americans don’t seem to get.
UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
all those polls where people systematically support their national health services probably used tons of americans to influence the answers; i think you are up to something here
GekkePrutser 4y ago
Here in Spain the free healthcare I receive is really great. I have nothing but good words for it no matter what the audience is. Sure there's some waiting lists but when I have something that may be serious I get seen right away. In the Netherlands I've also had great care and even subsidized housing when I was making minimum wage.

jorblumesea 4y ago

Americans oversell the quality of their healthcare. American healthcare is actually just as bad as "socialized medicine", we just spend more on it and have less access. "But you have to wait months for a specialist in Canada!" That's different from the US system, how? Have you ever tried to get appointments? We're also booking many months out. "Want this live saving surgery? Let's see if insurance will cover it first, you might impact our profits. " K... It all sucks, but at least everyone gets it in some places as opposed to the system working for a privileged few. Ironically, the US does have socialized medicine, it's called Medicare, which is wildly popular. The US healthcare system is one of the strongest arguments for government take over.

xenospn 4y ago
Top-tier medical care is useless if you can’t use it! This is a vital point many Americans don’t seem to get.

UmbertoNoEco 4y ago

all those polls where people systematically support their national health services probably used tons of americans to influence the answers; i think you are up to something here

GekkePrutser 4y ago

Here in Spain the free healthcare I receive is really great. I have nothing but good words for it no matter what the audience is. Sure there's some waiting lists but when I have something that may be serious I get seen right away. In the Netherlands I've also had great care and even subsidized housing when I was making minimum wage.