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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
Be careful for what you wish for.
Set aside plenty of time to wait your turn to see the doctor.
Oh, and one more thing, get ready for much higher taxes.
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That's funny. My aunt started to black out and had severe headaches and went to her doc. She has pretty good insurance through her company -- the doc was concerned about her blackouts and he referred her to a specialist where she would get a CT scan. The wait time for this?
Six weeks.
Six weeks waiting on a CT scan. Six fucking weeks, a month in a half of waiting. Keep in mind this is AMERICA. She could have (but thankfully didn't) had any number of deadly things wrong with her yet she had to wait six weeks to find out. If the wait times here are any indication, switching over to a government-sponsored or government-ran healthcare system doesn't seem bad at all.
As for the taxes... We currently pay twice as much as any other industrialized nation on healthcare and if life/death expectancies are any indicator for level of your countries health, most 1st world nations are doing a better job than we are at keeping their citizens alive. Furthermore, with insurance for all, medicine in this country would become preventative rather than just for treatment as it is currently in this country.