Your country's medical care; does it like you?

[EmperorDude]

Not sure if mine does. For reasons unclear to me, one of my teeth has been pushed back into my month at an almost 90 degree angle. Now as you can imagine the gums surrounding it are very much damaged and now if I don't watch carefully how I eat the teeth near the messed up one will start throbbing and causing pain.

Now maybe your wondering why I just don't go to the dentist. I can't go to the local dentist because as you may or may not be aware many places in America don't accept different kinds of insurance. And for some reason I will never understand my insurance that has been covering me since I was born is, for some reason, not accepted at many dentist and doctors offices. So I'm now waiting two months on a University of Michigan hospital list to see someone.

Anyone have any bad experiences with your countries health care? Do you think yours is good or needs improving? I'm curious to hear from people in other countries about how their medical care is compared to here.

 

[meatloaf231]

Health... care?

What is this devilry! It's more like Somewhat Healthy Services.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Well, I was born at 28 weeks, with a punctured right lung. I was in SCBU (Special care baby unit) for the following 22 weeks.
That isn't so bad, until you consider that I needed a £7000 jab, three times a day. That's on top of the normal wages and equipment costs. I even died once, but they managed to revive me.

Mum reckons I cost the state about £250 000. That was in 1993.

So yeah, I think the NHS likes me. I sure owe it one.

 

[shatnershaman]

Universal Health Care in Canada. Free seems good to me (well there is a yearly tax but its alot cheaper than 1 million dollar for a surgery)

 

[afrophysics]

The NHS? Hell yes, it likes me and I love it.

 

[Ixus Illwrath]

Our health care system in the US is run entirely by pharmaceutical companies that have their lobbyists all over our government.

So no, it doesn't care much about our citizens, but ask a Libertarian and he'd tell you to 'make more money and shut the hell up you drain on society'

These are the same people that don't seem to mind that that fire department, police, schools and libraries are socialized. Or they're even against that which just makes them insane as shit.

 

[TheGhostOfSin]

You've gotta love the NHS and it's (mostly) freeness.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

i live in canada, mostly free health care, gotta pay for certain things like dentist and other cosmetic non-life threatening stuff but i'm still very jealous of the british and french health care systems

 

[fulano]

Healthcare where I live sure is fucked up most often times, but it's free, and as far as I can say it helped me.

I've had four surgeries, and radiotherapy and it cost my dad a total of ZERO.

México's infrastructure does suck in many aspects, and right now healthcare is tanking, but for what is worth, it sure did help me a while back. I'd probably be all messed up, or my family all indebted if I had been born in the U.S. I just don't understand what the big deal is against socialized healthcare is.

 

[qbert4ever]

I'm an American. Need I say more?

 

[fulano]

I'm an American. Need I say more?

Obama better win that thing and keep his promise of better healthcare, if not then people ought to force him...if some nut doesn't off him first(hope not).

 

[TomNook]

I'm a Jewish white affluent male United States citizen, no one likes me.

 

[Aginor27]

i live in canada, mostly free health care, gotta pay for certain things like dentist and other cosmetic non-life threatening stuff but i'm still very jealous of the british and french health care systems

I'm Canadian as well, and it's pretty much this. However it seems every time i've gone to the hospital it's always the worlds longest wait.

Then you get the idiotic walk in clinic doctors. I went to one and the guy said "he has a cough, give him these" then we went ot the hospital and it turned out i had pneumonia...fun..

 

[sneakypenguin]

I like my healthcare it's pretty nice.
socialized medicine would ruin that though and drive up cost as any economist would tell you, just look at any XY graph

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

I'm Australian. HAHA It's free Bitches!! On a serious note my country's really good at taking care of all it's citizens, we'll help anyone who asks politely.

Same with homelessness.

 

[stompy]

Australia's healthcare system is pretty good. As long as you pay your taxes, you get pretty much free health care, called Medicare. It's great for minor things like colds and such, and we get to get the government to pay for medication and doctor's visits.

Though, for major surgery, you have to go on a waiting list. It's not so bad except for the fact that a majority of people don't have private health care, so you have to wait quite a bit.

 

[Shadowtek]

Our health care system only likes you if your already healthy. if not, you have to fight tooth and nail to get anything done other than a standard check up.... it kinda suks

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I'm Canadian as well, and it's pretty much this. However it seems every time i've gone to the hospital it's always the worlds longest wait.

there are triage rules, if you're life isn't threatened you have to wait

Then you get the idiotic walk in clinic doctors. I went to one and the guy said "he has a cough, give him these" then we went ot the hospital and it turned out i had pneumonia...fun..

i've had bacterial influenza, aka pneumonia, it took my doctor several tries to figure out which strain i had, needless to say it suck but medicine is not an exact science, considering 1738940814763981461 things can have the exact same symptoms and oddly enough not all doctors know all the diseases nor have seen them

 

[Brett Alex]

Australia's healthcare system is pretty good. As long as you pay your taxes, you get pretty much free health care, called Medicare. It's great for minor things like colds and such, and we get to get the government to pay for medication and doctor's visits.

Though, for major surgery, you have to go on a waiting list. It's not so bad except for the fact that a majority of people don't have private health care, so you have to wait quite a bit.

The only problem is the Private Healthcare Rebate, where people with Private Healthcare can claim a refund for not using the public Medicare. I think its safe to say that money would be better spent on improving medicare.
Otherwise its great.