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Healthcare wait times vary a lot country to country: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-care-wait-times-by-country https://worldpopulatio
by elil17 4y ago
Healthcare wait times vary a lot country to country: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-care-wait-times-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-ca...
27% of cases take one month or longer to get to a specialist in the US. Compare that to 61% Norway and Canada and 0% in Spain and Chile, all of which are single payer systems. That figure is at 25% in Germany and The Netherlands, which are both mandatory multi-payer systems (a mix of private and public insurance with much stricter limits on out of pocket costs compared to the US). It's not obvious that single payer systems lead to universally better or worse wait times.
- Throwawayaerlei 4y agoA very great deal depends on urgency. Here in the US when it was erroneously through I might have cancer I was in the specialist's office in less then 24 hours. Granted, that was a "Oh, we're not going to be too busy tomorrow morning, come in and we'll make room for you" partial special case. Other times I've waited a lot longer for a specialist's appointment, but those absolutely weren't high urgency situations.
- elil17 4y agoI was in exactly the same situation last week. A risk of a serious illness was identified and all of a sudden the red carpet was rolled out - next day appointments for procedures that typically take at least weeks to get scheduled. Now that they've ruled out everything really nasty (thank goodness) it's back to waiting a week for my doctor to reply to my messages.