So I finally saw Sicko....

spiral out

beemster wrote:

I live Canada and we have Universal Health Care, but it sure does have its problems as well, shortage of family doctors, long wait times for routine test, such as, MRI's, Cat Scans etc., long waits to get into a specialest ( I have been waiting 4 months now). I agree u need health care, just don't copy our model.

I don't know if any of the free health care systems are perfect out their, ours is much like yours and you have to wait at times, depends where you live and what hospital and stuff. But I'd rather this than not being able to afford any care at all.

writersu

spiral out wrote:

I don't know if any of the free health care systems are perfect out their, ours is much like yours and you have to wait at times, depends where you live and what hospital and stuff. But I'd rather this than not being able to afford any care at all.

yeah, mine is the same feeling here. certain medicines are not covered as they are formulated; dr's need to work around what is but usually there are alternatives that are just as good and serve the same purpose.
I am not sure how to go about getting this solved; wish I knew.
Yeah, insurance companies are way over priced; to buy your own is insanely costly and yeah if your job has it your boss pays big time as well. But if there were state healthcare, then the insurance companies would be not as able to abuse the whole system, right? Or at least we would have a choice as to what to do whether private healthcare or state run? as long as the state run didn't require a county hospital. We had CookCounty Hosp/ Stroger actually, and yes, I am sure that it did its best to serve those people who had nowhere else to go but it was not the safest place to be either due to the number of patients they had and the limited staff that the system could afford to pay.