I swear to god if the US or Canadian media start using the current state of our healthcare system to advocate for an American system I’m going to lose it. This is exactly what the right wants. They’ve been underfunding the system to the point where it might as well not even exist and now they’re turning around and saying, “look, it doesn’t work”. It’s “starve the beast” to the letter and apparently it’s working.
They take something that works (albeit not always perfectly) for everyone and defund it, pass legislative stumbling blocks, create chaos, wait, then say, “it’s broken and only we can fix it!”. How do they fix it? By selling it piecemeal to corporate vampires.
Watch as the USPS, one of the last remaining US government corporations, is dismantled.
Admire how the NHS in the UK has been torn apart.
Get your bankruptcy forms ready, folk. American style “health care” is coming to Canada.
Which character will you play in the Mario Party?
Admire how the NHS in the UK has been torn apart.
This is going on in Finland as well. Way increased privatisation and defunding public systems.
Fucking right wing.
As someone who has been to hospital multiple times in canada as a canadian, if you know you don’t feel well, stay at the hospital don’t just pack up and leave. I know six hours is super long, but them not doing blood work or xrays is a little sus. whenever i went in for chest pain at bare minimum i got 2 ECGs, blood work, and chest xray. It doesn’t list what type of Aneurysm he had, but i reckon it was not in the brain. We do have a problem where waiting rooms are stuffed full of people and hospitals are overwhelmed, but if it was night time, usually that crowd has moved on, i wished he stayed longer and asked for blood work and a xray.
I always love when they knock the wait times in Canada because in the US the alternative for most would be avoiding going to the hospital at all costs until it’s too late anyway.
after doctors made sure he wasn’t in a life-threatening condition, he was moved to the waiting room, where he sat for six hours before deciding to pack up and go home.
I don’t know why they’re trying to spin it as a difference from the US system.
I had the same exact experience in the US. multiple times. You go to the ER, for whatever reason, they look at you and, unless you’re literally bleeding to death you’re gonna be told to wait many many hours.
So, I guess Canada is the same on this, but at least they won’t send you a huge bill to pay.
Exactly. It’s called triage. It’s not first come, first served. If someone is bleeding out, they get treated before you. Your turn will come as soon as there are resources available to take care of you with no one dying. And if the people holding the purse strings are reducing staffing levels, then your wait time is going to a lot longer than it would be if they weren’t trying to cut corners.
That last bit makes all the difference though. Canada has issues that need resolving, the US is just fucked
