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Corbin
What we have is a system where we call in first if it is not an emergency, and they give us advice and if we need something more, then we go in. If we can wait a day or tow we do this thing call making an appointment. I know of no places outside of hospitals that are 24/7. I don't knwo where you live, but to have such a place is not the norm in this country. Of course how close are you to a hospital? That also makes a difference.
posted by
kooka_lives
on July 15, 2009 at 8:54 AM
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Re: Corbin, that video has so many holes in it
What? You have no Urgent Treatment Centers? I have one 3 miles away, and I live in the country 7 days a week, doctor on duty. Some are open 24/7. Do you go to the emergency room for everything? Hmmm, that would make you part of the problem.
Have you considered moving?
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Corbin_Dallas
on July 15, 2009 at 7:36 AM
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Corbin, that video has so many holes in it
So much of the complaints are the same kind of thing we get here in the USA.
Where in the USA can you find private clinics open on weekends? I think some around here have limited Saturday hours, but not many. So right away on that video when he is complaining because a clinic is closed on Sunday, I knew thsi was going to be a poorly thought out video. On weekends an evenings I have a good drive ahead of me if I or my family need medical care.
I've waited hours at a hospital for care for my sons because of the crowds and that is with private health care. There is no way around such things when dealing with emergency care. A lot of it just has to do with timing, and yes on a Sunday, when the smaller clinics are closed, more people will be at the hospital for emergency care and there will very often be long waits.
Have you ever had to see specialist? It can take months before you can get into to see them. In fact right now we are waiting till December to see a specialist for our youngest son's sensory problems. There are just too few specialist out there and everyone wants to see them.
As those without health insurance here are much worse off. My uncle died of cancer and it could have been caught and treated in time if they would have run a test on him some time during that year or so when he did not have insurance and kept going to the local free clinics where they blew him off and said he just had bronchitis and gave him a prescription. Once he finally got health insurance it was too late, the cancer had spread and he had less than a year to live.
And with some of the BS that went on with my mother's near death accident about a decade ago, I am surprised she survived the hospital stay at times. And that was with full private health care insurance. They moved her around needlessly, in a manner that was not good for her condition, all because they were worried about the cost. If they would have done the right thing and left her at the first hospital, where they knew how to take care of people in her condition and let her stabilize there, her recovery most likely would have gone smoother. Instead she got sent to a hospital not ready to deal with a patient in such critical condition and she got moved around like crazy, a different room every day, as they tried to figure out what to do with her. It was not good for her at all.
As for taxes, it sounds like basically I'll most likely be spending just as much on health care as I do now.
Then of course they never mention that the Canadian dollar is worth less than the American dollar when they talk about prices in Canada.
The wealthy already have the better health care and the working class are screwed, having to either pay what the cannot afford to pay to get a bare minimum of health care or go without and try to get by on the free programs that are out there which you wouldn't want to use if you were actually sick and have to have next to no income to use them. And in truth I have no choice about my health care. I take what my company offers me. There are a few different options available, but the choice is limited and makes little difference.
The truth is that our system needs to changes. There are far too many problems with it. Most likely what is needed is a hybrid of the two systems or a whole new approach. The video just showed us the a lot of the problems we already have are just part of health care as a whole. The guy complained about how horrible the Canadian Health system was by showing us it had all the same faults our system has. That really proves nothing.
posted by
kooka_lives
on July 15, 2009 at 7:32 AM
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