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This feels like a political statement and not from knowledge of Finland. Finland: "The time within which you must get access to non-urgent care and treatment i
by silvestrov 3y ago
This feels like a political statement and not from knowledge of Finland.
Finland: "The time within which you must get access to non-urgent care and treatment is laid down in law."
source, which has list of waiting times: https://www.hel.fi/en/health-and-social-services/data-and-the-rights-of-the-client/waiting-times-and-customer-satisfaction https://www.hel.fi/en/health-and-social-services/data-and-th...
- FredPret 3y agoYou can’t legislate a waiting time! Laws act on people, not reality. What if it takes the doctors longer to work on the people in front of you? What if more urgent cases arrive and goes to the front of the line?
- tapland 3y agoYeah, for urgent care that can happen wether it's free or not.
- SgtBastard 3y agoI’d suggest reading the link the person you’re replying to posted.
- vidarh 3y agoYou can legislate it because it puts the government in breach of law if they don't provide sufficient funding to ensure sufficient excess capacity to meet the criteria. Governments legislate standards of care all the time.
- d0gbread 3y agoImagine this take on something like an enterprise SLA, that helps me reason about how at an individual level it feels nonsensical but at the parent level there are a bunch of upstream levers available to meet those SLAs.
- usr1106 3y agoAnd the law is frequently violated. Nowadays more than 50% of Finnish newborns are covered by voluntary private health insurance, although all of them are covered already by public health care. I think that tells very much how much people still trust in the public health system.
- veeti 3y agoThere are practically no consequences for breaking these laws. It is a fact that these time requirements are not met by public healthcare in areas like Helsinki [1] [2]. [1] https://www.laakarilehti.fi/terveydenhuolto/hoitotakuu-pitaa-enaa-harvoin/ https://www.laakarilehti.fi/terveydenhuolto/hoitotakuu-pitaa... [2] https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/f3392e98-c524-4c22-a534-51a16e4cfaf9 https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/f3392e98-c524-4c22-a53...