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@ArrowbearMoore @ai6yr Now you can wait weeks or months to see a doctor but now it costs $250 to $5,000 and you get to find out how much insurance covered in two to three months!
@theorangetheme @ai6yr
Is that BC or AB?
We're in Hawaii now, and the MD turnover is crazy, docs leave coz they can't afford to live in the style they did on the mainland, but the fees we get charged would indicate otherwise.
@ArrowbearMoore @theorangetheme Hawaii is like a rural state in terms of health care. Even worse if you're not in Honolulu... have relatives there. It's like being in rural Montana.
@ArrowbearMoore Ooh, I didn't know AB and BC had different health systems.
@ai6yr @ArrowbearMoore Every province in Canada has its own health system, and experiences can vary dramatically depending on how much the province is willing to fund it.
It's simultaneously the worst form of government healthcare and the one the US would be most likely to emulate (since that's the precedent that Obamacare established).
I had a heart incident a year ago. I am now 50% recovered from it. I had to wait 6 months to see a cardiologist
And when I finally saw her, she was like well there's really no way that I can tell you now what happened to your heart 6 months ago, or what the prognosis is, or anything
I really didn't know what to say to her
@NilaJones was this implying that the only way to have gotten that information in your healthcare system was to have gone to the ER at the time?
Yes, and that wasn't an option
@NilaJones @zephyrleifrenner I just exercised the ER option because my MD not calling me back (all clear on the cardiac front but maybe some followup later). Glad I have insurance and reserves to be able to do so, of course.
I'm on a wait list to see a cardiologist after my ectocardiogram results showed a very slight murmur.
A wait list. For one of the things that keeps me alive.
That's for who is in my health insurance network. I couldn't even think of looking for someone outside of it. Because the huge bills would make my heart much worse, guaranteed.
@ai6yr Thank you private equity. 🥰
@ai6yr wait is this for your sinus issue??
Because if that’s not cleared up by March, I think you have bigger problems
@ai6yr So sorry 😢
My husband has been dealing with similar wait times for the past few years while dealing with GI problems.
(Note to anyone reading this: I'm not asking for advice, lots of details I'm not willing to share)
@ai6yr Pretty normal up here. Last January, after sitting on hold FOR AN HOUR with UW to make an appointment to see my doctor for a yearly checkup, I was told that they were booking July appointments, but they didn't have their July schedule yet, so if I could call back in a couple of weeks, they could book me for July or August or Sept. I ended up calling Planned Parenthood & got an appointment for 2 weeks out, they did all labs too.
@ai6yr Sounds like dermatology, unless you tell them you have a tumor, then they are pretty quick.
@ai6yr public Healthcare in Trinidad and Tobago has 3 to 6 month wait times i know of. Plenty of trouble hidden in that system that hides malpractice with settlements.
People with health insurance or pay cash have weeks sometimes in private institutions. The quality of Healthcare approaches mediocrity in the US and costs less.
So, between the two, no clear winner. I would say comparable.
But T&T is at most 1/175th the size with significantly lower gdp.
*cough*
wow. i've gotten used to 2 months on average. must be cheaper to just reduce staff and wait for you to heal or die. your choice. always ER roulette for $10k.
@ai6yr My wife currently waiting until May for a rheumatologist appointment.
@ai6yr Alberta, Canada wants to adopt US healthcare system.🙄 I know from having lived in B.C. their system isn't without fault, but we didn't have to wait weeks or months to see a doc, and besides a very reasonable monthly premium, no bills. I'm still getting bills for a cancer screening procedure done back in March here, on top of premiums that eat up most of my pension