Agreed. I busted my ankle a few years ago. Tried to get a Dr. To look at it. Closest app. Was 6 months out. So it was either wait 6 months, or go to the ER and pay 5k for an X-ray. I waited, and now the dang thing is perpetually stiff and pops really badly sometimes.
I blew two tendons in my arm, walked in a clinic two days later when it wasn’t presenting like a sprain got x-rays that day and was off work for 6 months on a regime of physio and a return to work rehabilitation gym /physio and massage therapy program that ran monitored by specialists 5 days a week… And never paid a cent.
So the argument that socialized healthcare will cause massive delays doesn’t mesh with my personal experience living in such a system.
Mind you I live in a large Canadian city and the resources and scheduling would likely be much worse if I were in a small town but that’s the thing. What your population density is has more to do with wait times because staffing is a finite resources no matter who foots the bill.
I needed a couple of scans at one point and my doctor actually told me to get them at the ER or I would have to wait months! I couldn’t wait months. I am not going to be looking good by the end of March as it is. The scans didn’t show anything, but that’s beside the point. I had to get them to find out what wasn’t wrong. So I went to the ER. What else could I do?
Agreed. I busted my ankle a few years ago. Tried to get a Dr. To look at it. Closest app. Was 6 months out. So it was either wait 6 months, or go to the ER and pay 5k for an X-ray. I waited, and now the dang thing is perpetually stiff and pops really badly sometimes.
I blew two tendons in my arm, walked in a clinic two days later when it wasn’t presenting like a sprain got x-rays that day and was off work for 6 months on a regime of physio and a return to work rehabilitation gym /physio and massage therapy program that ran monitored by specialists 5 days a week… And never paid a cent.
So the argument that socialized healthcare will cause massive delays doesn’t mesh with my personal experience living in such a system.
Mind you I live in a large Canadian city and the resources and scheduling would likely be much worse if I were in a small town but that’s the thing. What your population density is has more to do with wait times because staffing is a finite resources no matter who foots the bill.
I needed a couple of scans at one point and my doctor actually told me to get them at the ER or I would have to wait months! I couldn’t wait months. I am not going to be looking good by the end of March as it is. The scans didn’t show anything, but that’s beside the point. I had to get them to find out what wasn’t wrong. So I went to the ER. What else could I do?