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

wait times means your already at the hospital... in a waiting room

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

I could probably diagnose it

Hospital wait times has nothing to do with waiting in a hospital. It is a capacity issue. It is how long a patient has to wait for non emergency service, e.g. a hip replacement, if I recall the UK is a month behind the EU avg.

Yeah I think that’s it

No necessity and nothing happens

kinda funny really... the only people who aren't covered under the US healthcare are the tax payers who pay for it 😛

$1tn per year

But we still have to pay shitloads if there’s no health insurance

i think our NHS budget has gone up quite a lot since this (even though the libs keep saying our budget is cut... it is definitely NOT) ... https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/staging.informa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/17035618/davis_mirror_2014_es1_for_web.jpg