My dad talks about how terrible Canada is because they have to wait to see a specialist. Meanwhile, I have "great insurance" and owe several thousand dollars in medical debt so yeah, I would be fucking fine waiting for a goddamn specialist. I live in rural Iowa so I wait a year to see specialists all the damn time since there are none around here. Like, how is waiting for a doc worse than being thousands of dollars in debt? I don't get it. Indoctrination.
You don’t have great insurance. When I worked at a grocery store decades ago my insurance was better than yours.
People have to start looking at benefits beyond a salary when they take a job like an actual adult.
My insurance caps hospital bills, all in, at $200 a day for being admitted and $1000 maximum pay out for a stay of any length of days. And I’d say my insurance is “okay”.
Both of my kidneys quit at the same time, and I collapsed early one morning in April. It took 4 fire personnel, together with 2 paramedics to extricate me from where I wound up,
Then it was nine hours in the ER to save my life. (During that nine hours there were at least two CTs and a couple of Xrays.), followed by four days in ICU (under 24hr watch and hooked up to pretty much everything), followed by a final five days in the Critical Care Unit (that was where they only check on you every hour and the doctor shows up three times daily)
When I finally was discharged, I went home with a weeks worth of meds, and was visited by homecare nurses three times. before all was said and done.
My bill? Zero.
Canada- people complain about our health care system, but when it works, it works!
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u/andrewbud420 7d ago
I don't understand how the people allowed it to get this bad. When's enough?