The problem with free healthcare is that the demand for doctors severely exceeds the amount of doctors available, so in countries like Canada, it's not uncommon to be required to wait MONTHS for a doctor's appointment
I understand what you mean, Biscuit. In May, I got appendicitis and was rushed to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. A month later, my mom showed me the medical bill.
The total bill was $84,000, and if not for having health insurance, my parents would be in serious debt.
You don't know what you're talkin' about. Go spend 24 hours in a waiting room with your kid in a canadian hospital. You don't know what he has. Every 6 or 7 hours you kind of loose it and go ask how long it's gonna be 'till you see the doctor to be answered that they don't givetime, they see patient based on priority established when you met the nurse. Then she goes back to chatting and laughing with the 4 other persons hired to handle the bureaucracy. Meanwhile, there may not even be a doctor in the building. When and if you meet a doctor (believe it or not, in canada almost 30% of patient leave emergecy rooms before seeing a doctor) if you have anything remotely odd, you'll be referred to a specialist with which you'll have to book an appointment yourself and probably in 18 months. In that period of time you have enough time to 1. Get better by yourself 2. Train to become an alpinist. 3. Try to climb the everest and DIE THERE IN A FRIGGIN SNOW STORM. This is free healthcare!
There's no such thing as free healthcare. Whether you prefer it from the government or from yourself is up to you but don't being it to America just move to Canada
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I just don't like paying $1200 in insurance premiums plus 20% of my doctor bills. And my insurance doesn't cover the cost of most of my meds at all. $500 a month in prescription meds. If insurance companies would stop being greedy, maybe things would be different.
Maybe. A lot of things do need to change. However I also don't want my taxes to pay for someone who smokes, someone with an eating disorder, and worse, someone who refuses to work and abuses government welfare. Also, again I ask instead of going through the trouble and arguments trying to change American healthcare, why don't people move to Canada where (apparently) everything is how they like it?
I don't want to move to Canada. I like living in America. I just can't stand health care in America. I'm not poor. According to my gross pay I'm solidly middle class. But trying to pay for health care causes my net to be in the low socioeconomic level.
Nobody likes paying for health care. But giving control of healthcare to the us government is giving it far to much power. A government (US government) is not ment to be in control, it is ment to serve.
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The total bill was $84,000, and if not for having health insurance, my parents would be in serious debt.
Much better to be in debt for life.