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on the flip side, we also would not get immediate access to care (that is you can't attend a doctors appt within 72 hrs of scheduling) Not true today in the US
by alistairSH 2y ago
on the flip side, we also would not get immediate access to care (that is you can't attend a doctors appt within 72 hrs of scheduling)
Not true today in the US. It took me ~7 days to get an MRI of my hip. And have you tried getting into see an endocrinologist lately?
- HDThoreaun 2y agoWhere I live there are mri strip mall spots where you can just walk in. Same with dialysis.
- alistairSH 2y agoNot here, gotta get a CON, which the existing facilities will fight tooth and nail to prevent. We seem to have the worst of all options. Not a free/open market. Not a socialized or single payer. Instead it’s all rent seeking, regulatory capture, and the rich getting richer.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoOof, CONs strike again. We really do have the absolute worst of both worlds, neither free market nor gov run. Just some fucking government locked in monopolies.
- nickff 2y agoHere's a link to a story where a Canadian woman waited three years: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-woman-3-years-mri-that-showed-she-had-brain-tumour-1.7398080 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-woman-3-y... Apparently the average in her province is about 14 months, about sixty times longer than you experienced.
- DangitBobby 2y agoWe should probably not continue to wring our hands and allow our entire system to be the worst in the world based on FOMO anecdotes.