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The best argument for universal healthcare is having to deal with health insurance. What an absolute scam. I have never had a good experience going to the doctor because of health insurance, and mine isn't even that bad.

I'm terrified of ever having to take an ambulance. How the fuck am I supposed to know which for profit company will send a van out for me?

And so little of that money ever makes it to most of the paramedic and hospital staff. It's insane that someone performing life-saving work on call makes, on average, $45k.

Can confirm. Had stroke at 21, family at my side as they called 911, and I vividly remember thinking "I'm not going to be able to pay my bills for a couple weeks, this is awful". Oh, awful it is, but instead of not paying my bills for a couple weeks, it's until I die.

I was aware that I had high bp, but it's not a big deal, right? Only old people stroke out. Why is it suddenly really heavy and hard to move? Uhoh...

Isn’t it cheaper to fly to Europe, visit a doctor, and fly back instead of going to the ER?

Also for “normal” treatments. Getting a baby costs like $2000 in Germany without insurance. Plus flight and hotel for two months you are still far below 10K in total cost. 😁

Five years ago I had chest pain, I thought it was a strained pectoral muscle. It wasn’t until a friend asked my plans for the evening, and I commented I was wondering when I should call a doctor about the pain, and they told me “go to the hospital now” that I went. I was having a heart attack. So yeah. Americans avoid the doctor like crazy because you can either pay an insane amount of money to be told “take an ibuprofen and get some sleep,” or to be told you’re going to be spending a truly astronomical sum because you have twelve kinds of cancer. It’s lose-lose.

As a Canadian, I don't like making fun of the American health care system ... Americans deserve far better health care support from their government.

The other reason I don't like making fun of it is that ... our corporations, American corporations and Canadian conservatives would more than love to tear apart our health care system and privatize it all like in America.

We shouldn't make fun of others and their situation, especially if they can't or feel like they can't do anything about it all ... we should work together to protect what we have and to encourage more public services to be created where there aren't any.

Sounds close to what we have in the Czech Republic. And they even say that the doctors who came from Ukraine are "not worthy" to work here without a few years of reeducation.

Odd that your old doctor didn’t have a plan to distribute patients to new doctors when they retired.

Not trying to downplay your plight at all, but in America this is also the case. Not only are doctors visits expensive to an extremely outrageous extent, but you might not be able to find one that can take you.

Waitlists for medical, dental, psychiatric etc doctors in my area are a minimum of 3 months long.

A few years ago I called the largest network of therapists in my area for an appointment. They told me I would be on a wait list and I probably wouldn't hear back for 6 weeks. I got a call 6 months later.

Medical doctors and dentists are even worse. No wait lists at all. Emergency clinics full of low quality doctors and practitioners are popping up everywhere because most people don't go to the doctors enough to still be an active patient. They don't go enough to be seen because they can't afford to go unless they are truly terribly sick. Those clinics charge far more, do far less, and care the minimal amount about patients.

A quick look in your ear? $150. You have a real problem? Well, they will charge you the $150 and then tell you to go to the hospital.

I have never heard of anyone in my area getting a dentist appointment in less than 3 months. To even get patient status takes a friend knowing that their doctor is taking new patients. And the chances are that if you can't afford a doctor, your friends can't either.

Damn, that sounds like it really sucks. Any idea why there aren't enough doctors there?

Yeah, it's terrible here. My doctor needs you to make an appointment, which is usually full for days (sometimes even weeks),... Last time I had something urgent I just went to random other one and explained mine was booked full... He took me, but he didn't even come near me. 😅 It seemed that one had become a bit germophobic since Covid. Was weird to see a doctor act that way. 😅

Or maybe allergies. Ask your doctor about Zirtec!

As an European, I don't understand the point you are trying to make, sorry. Why would you trust YouTube over a doctor? Am I missing something?

I also have no idea what you are trying to say.

I was just at the doctor a couple of times in November. Turns out I had a bronchitis, possibly with a bacterial superinfection.

So I was at the doctor to

1. Check if my lungs were affected. is there a danger of a lung infection?
2. Do I need antibiotics or should I sit it out?
3. Get a doctors note (I was on sick leave for three and a half weeks)

This is nothing I could google. I actually did google and did not find bronchitis as an issue, but cold, influenza, and lung cancer. Google does not know how my lungs sound when I breathe.

So of course you should ask your doctor and not the internet.