My grandfather, who is close to 90, is currently in a year long wait to see a specialist to assess the health of his brain. Not that he is doing badly or anything, but at such an age things can go from perfectly fine and livable to being thrown on your deathbed in a matter of days.
I recently waited several hours to see a doctor for an issue I've had recently, who basically just told me to take some drugs and didn't think to refer me to get scans done or think it was anything more serious than something that will pass in a few days. If this problem in fact does not get resolved, I'm going to have to spend another several hours again to see a doctor to get a referral, and deal with that entire process of waiting my turn in line.
Canada is an absolutely atrocious example of socialized health care. There are other countries that aren't this bottom of the barrel and function to at least some degree, but because both American and Canadian leftists have an NA-centric view of the world, you generally only ever hear leftists try to sing praise of Canada's health care system.
I have heard that France is a good example of socialized medicine, because they still have private insurance to help take some of the load off the system. Japan also has socialized medicine but care is generally good and there are still private practices where you can pay more to get better service.
My grandfather, who is close to 90, is currently in a year long wait to see a specialist to assess the health of his brain. Not that he is doing badly or anything, but at such an age things can go from perfectly fine and livable to being thrown on your deathbed in a matter of days.
I recently waited several hours to see a doctor for an issue I've had recently, who basically just told me to take some drugs and didn't think to refer me to get scans done or think it was anything more serious than something that will pass in a few days. If this problem in fact does not get resolved, I'm going to have to spend another several hours again to see a doctor to get a referral, and deal with that entire process of waiting my turn in line.
Canada is an absolutely atrocious example of socialized health care. There are other countries that aren't this bottom of the barrel and function to at least some degree, but because both American and Canadian leftists have an NA-centric view of the world, you generally only ever hear leftists try to sing praise of Canada's health care system.
I have heard that France is a good example of socialized medicine, because they still have private insurance to help take some of the load off the system. Japan also has socialized medicine but care is generally good and there are still private practices where you can pay more to get better service.