Message from @wacka
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Just an international perspective. There are many ways to achieve universal health care. The most extreme is the total nationalization of the health service, as seen i Great Britain with the NHS. I think the “bernie” way to choose the nordic models is a poor fit for the US, we have different way to organize the public sector. My personal opinion, the USA can cheapest and most effective do this by be inspired by the Schweiz model. (I am a native nordic)
Yeah because that's good
People who use healthcare less over a period of time will get cuts if the need the help
And the issue with the system in Canada is that it's underfunded and overburdened
Most hospitals are at or over capacity
@Beemann you have private insurance in the UK... so... youre wrong... 😛
I dislike the Canadian healthcare system, it is too ineffective
Doesn't stop the government from denying people options
See: Alfie Evans
Wasn’t that an ethics thing?
oh yeah.. you mean the kid that the american docs said we can definitly help... then came over and said, no we would never have been able to help
I think it was somewhere else
So wait times are an issue?
But England was like “fuck dat shit RULE BRITTANIA OUR HEALTHCARE IS THE BEST! LET THE CHILD DIE TO PROVE A POINT!”
on average the wait times in the UK are 30% less than the US
the child was already brain dead
US is a larger area and hospitals are pretty far from each other
what does that have to do with wait times?
Yeah, I haven't really heard any complaints from people in the UK.
Ehh
I hate the waits
It’s like there aren’t enough doctors per hospital
^^^^^^^^
It was Italian doctors who said they would help, the government said no, which shouldn't be their choice to make
It's that simple
In the UK, healthcare is still heavily mismanaged. I don't know the US system though
Not sure
I was once called in for blood test results and waited 45 minutes to be told "There's nothing wrong" and sent out, they surely could have just texted/emailed
popped into the docs not long ago... just to say i was going on holiday.. they gave me like.. 6 vaccines.. 😛 then went home.. no wait time... no appointment
It's heavily mismanaged and this is admitted by some of its biggest political proponents
Sometimes
I got blood tests years ago w/o results
>works on my machine: healthcare edition
It was a diabetes check tho
UK system is very up and down, sometimes I'll go in and the doctor will be very helpful, other times I get told BS
6 vaccines are nothing
Like once I went in for a tonsillitis appointment and was told I'd need to make a separate appointment just to ask questions about contraception
I got shots with things I was allergic too 16 times in each arm
I was on about this the other day
We have long waiting lists too, there was a news story I saw a few months back where people were waiting upwards of a year or two to get diagnosed with autism