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Think of the children! (i.imgur.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good too see that guy kicking around. If he's the one I'm thinking of, he ended up going to Ukraine at the start of the war to help out. Ended up along the border I think offering to help give first aid and be a gopher essentially

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just don't look at the timestamp...

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Well, not free…. Taxes and all that. But free at the time of service, sure.

E: not sure what triggered the downvote train. Nothing I said is untrue. It’s not free, it’s paid for with taxes. It’s not a dig against socialized care, I’d much prefer to have that vs the financial disaster that US healthcare is.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And yet somehow, they end up paying less for health care than Americans do...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Not free I agree but I prefer getting taxed a lot and have those services rather than not.

The way I see it, if we tax for example fuel, well the price of fuel rises for the customers, so customers buy less fuel, then fuel companies lower the price so their stuff gets bought and now your fuel is around the same price as before, but you have free healthcare.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Meanwhile, here in the states, thanks to financial help from my mother, the over $10,000 in medical debt we've racked up over the past year is less than $10,000!

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[–] [email protected] 163 points 4 months ago (22 children)

Well yeah but you have those long wait times to deal with right?

Here in America, I only had to wait 4 weeks for a video conference (in-person would have been 6 weeks) with my primary care physician so she could recommend me to a specialist that doesn't have any openings until mid-August. Thank goodness I live in the land of the free where I only have to wait 3 months to see a doctor who has about a 20% chance to cancel on me last minute due to a "scheduling issues" and leave me hanging for another 4-8 weeks.

AND I get to pay for some of it out of pocket despite paying monthly for better than average medical insurance!

USA #1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

don't forget that if you live more than an hour away from a major metropolitan area, then you're not getting care from an actual MD, but a NP or PA who just got their "degree" from bob's discount medical credentials 10 minutes ago

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

I've opted to wait a year to change insurance companies so I could resume seeing my old doc instead of starting the process as a new patient under someone else, because honestly I'd be seen at a comparative time.

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[+] [email protected] -32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

remember that time canadian socialized medicine told a vet in a wheelchair that it would take too long to get the help she needs so wouldn't it be better if she just euthanized herself?

there's pros and cons to every system

edit: just to be clear, i agree nobody should have some insane medical debt from a broken arm. in american when i broke my arm i went to a private doctor and paid a couple hundred bucks. it was fine, not in the poor house over it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

So the problem is that we know about it? Because you know that happens everyday silently with the homeless in America. You just don't have to hear about it.

Socialized healthcare is infinitely better. It's not perfect. Nothing's perfect.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't sound like a problem with socialized medicine, so much as a problem with Canada's socialized healthcare system.

Like I'm pretty sure their right wing has been doing everything they can to dismantle their healthcare system. That's definitely going to reduce the speed and quality of care.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Not even that. It is a problem witj one individual who made a dumb comment.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

As opposed to not say anything and quietly watching them die?

My wife works in the American Hospital system. Had a old homeless guy come into the ER because his foot didn't exist anymore, and they gave him some pills and kicked him back into the street.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

imgur. now that's a place I haven't visted in a long time... a long time...

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