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Where are the shorter waits?! I called for a primary care appointment in July and only appointment was November or January the next year. FOR A 15-30 MINUTE APPOINTMENT. My insurance was billed $300+ for the visit.
Conservatives bitching about how if we had Canada's healthcare, we'd be waiting forever.
I have AMERICAN healthcare and I have to schedule a basic ass mandatory checkup 4-6 months in advance.
If it was an emergency, the next available slot is six weeks.
As a Canadian the last time that I had to go to the ER I was in and out in 2 hours and it cost me nothing out of pocket.
Now when it comes to procedures themselves oh there's a bit of a wait. But generally if it's serious you get bumped ahead cuz we use triage rules for most things.
Or another approach, calculate how much time it takes to save the cash for any given procedure and compare that to any socialized care. Say for an MRI, lab work, root canal, etc.
USA system is great if your wealthy. Otherwise you might as well be in a developing country as far as your access to all these high tech treatments we need massive profits on.
That's pretty much the definition of a developing country. If you are rich you can live like a king in any country that's not currently an active war zone.
The measure on how good a country is setup is how well the poor in that country live.
I get what you mean, but USA isn't developing. A developing country couldn't if it wanted it; USA chose not to.
That's fair.
Canada still doesn’t cover root canals. Dental is only now starting to come in on the public health care as is HRT.
Meanwhile I learned just how many people are living on ibuprofen (for years) or just saving up to get the tooth pulled rather than a canal.
Rest assured, they didn't pay $300+. Of course if you'd paid for it out of pocket without negotiating, YOU would've paid $300+.
That's part of why the prices are so goddamn high. EMR and billing software for the US market gets a "billed" and "expected" field on charges and the "expected" value in particular differs by insurance I believe.
Sounds like it's time to find a new primary doctor, that's insane.
This is the new doctor 😭😭.
I called another place and they actually said to call back in a couple months. The healthcare system is so consolidated in my state that there's only a few systems to go to. Maine.
I could schedule something hours away but then I'd need to take time off work to go or I won't go because of the inconvenience
Same... to get an appointment at my PCP in a decently sized city it was 7 months.