Posted on 08/09/2019 7:02:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
The following events did not take place in the Soviet Union or Cuba. None of this inhumanity was a figment of my imagination. I'm narrating the details without hyperbole.
Recently, I took a ride through one amazingly affordable health care system — the one Obama and other notable Democrats paint as the "envy of the world." See how quickly you can figure out where this envy of the world dwells.
Got your seat belt on? This liberal utopia is a bit bumpy.
You enter a hospital emergency room. For two months prior, you suffered abysmal pain, unable to shower, straighten out, or sit. You're the Hunchback of Notre Dame, debilitated with no reprieve. When one of your legs isn't numb from hip to toe, you experience sharp stabbing sensations that make you want to slit your wrists.
Yet you do exactly what your nation's one-tier medical system instructs you to do: you visit a family doctor who routinely suggests an MRI. And since you live in the proud lap of liberalism, which ensures the all-inclusive equity of suffering, you are told that your MRI is a mere twelve months away. A referral to a spine clinic was offered at a six months' wait. Lucky for you, a generous dose of an opioid was prescribed in the interim. The 60 Oxycontin pills (the most addictive opioid on the market, with a street value of $60/pill) were augmented by 270 pills of Gabapentin, a drug designed to deceive your brain into thinking you are not in pain. You walk away a guaranteed addict with a pocket full of mind-altering chemicals.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
So how is it that Canadians love their system so much? I guess if you’re healthy you don’t care that it doesn’t work.
right and come here for treatment.... the Canadian Healthcare myth.
That’s exactly it. Most people are healthy most of the time; if their problem can be solved at a clinic with some antibiotics or other standard pills, the system looks great to them as long as the costs are not apparent.
So how is it that Canadians come across the border to get their MRI’s and CAT scans in weeks rather than having to wait months there?
(the most addictive opioid on the market, with a street value of $60/pill)...
That’s 3,600 dollars for a 5 dollar co pay prescription!!!
If you get 4 a day of the Roxys, that’s 7200 dollar on a 5 dollar co pay!!!
I’d never sell but I can see the greedy and unscrupulous not being able to resist.
I have some unscruples :) Just not nearly enough to sell drugs.
Serious question. Why does it take so long for an MRI there? Are they over prescribing them and they are that backed up? Do they have so few of them they can’t meet demand?
The problem with universal healthcare is lack of resources. That means fewer doctors, nurses, techs, AND equipment like MRI machines that are modern in good working order. That’s the problem with a socialist system in general. There’s no incentive financially to go deep in debt to become a doctor when you won’t make much more than the average plumber or electrician. Maybe not even as much.
You will, however, be overworked as well as underpaid.
The biggest problem with Universal Healthcare is that now everything you do becomes everybody’s business: What you eat, What hobbies you have, do you have guns, etc.
Anyway after a 2 hour wait the Doc diagnosed a non life threatening issue. Got a blood test, ECG and follow up CAT scan. Confirms the Doc's initial diagnosis.
Good news is that my gall stone is now 13mm in diameter...was 16mm diameter last year, so I lost almost a cubic cm of stone after taking Bio-Gest pills.
Once spoke to a Canadian who had a heart attack. He went to the ER, then cardiac unit, recovered, and paid little or nothing.
Their system is OK for acute care situations, but for problems like the lady had in the story, or joint replacements, the waits are very long. I’ve also read it takes 10 months to see a primary care MD for a checkup, etc.
The left wants it that way. Everyone is equally miserable except the ruling elite, which doesn’t have to go through all that.
As always, when they call it free, it’s very expensive.
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Yes; that too. Universal healthcare might work in places like Sweden because they have an entirely different culture. People are used to waiting forever. I visited Italy many years ago. When I went to a local bank there the people were used to waiting a half hour or more to see a teller because their culture and way of doing things required that. Americans would not put up with that.
It does give the state permission to dictate healthy choices as well. Very un-American.
Do you know who the largest employer in the UK is?
It’s the NHS with, last I knew,over a million employees.
Wonder how many of those folks are actually treating, diagnosing, testing patients...
They did, but then they decided to let the Third World come to their country, with predictable results.
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Since women are the most likely to use the healthcare system (men being more averse or more stout) and have the primary care of children, they enjoy having the many minor visits paid for by the taxpayer. It’s when you’re in major pain and need involved care that you’re sh*t out of luck.
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