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The wait time is a complete myth made up by the US. It can take months in the US to get an appointment with a PCP - if you don’t get shunted to an NP or something instead. Then more weeks for any specialized tests like an MRI. Which you have to pay a good chunk for even with insurance. Then weeks for whatever’s next, or followup visits.

If it’s an emergency, like any country, you can go to an ER/ED and be seen at a time based on severity of need. Difference is other countries will charge little to nothing, but in the US you will be charged quite a bit. Even more if your insurers decide you’re “out of network” or some such, or if they don’t outright deny your claims anyway.

But for non-emergency tests other than basic things like blood tests that don’t appear to require prompt intervention? Yeah. Weeks to months in most places.

Just bullshit made up by Big Med and Big Pharma regurgitated by politicians on their payroll to keep your $$$ flowing into the pockets of multi-million- and billionaires.

Last year my family doctor quit from the hospital to open her own practice but unfortunately she's not in network with my insurance

I called the hospital to get an appointment (for a regular check up) with another doctor and none of their doctors 15 miles from me (2 big clinics and 2 small clinics) had any free appointments from May to December. The closest one was about 50 miles away with and the appointment and the waiting was 4 months

The greatest threat you can give to a Canadian is to ask that they live like an American.

Also medical bankruptcy virtually doesn't exist.

I don't know much about the US system, and I would chose the Canadian system any time, but ours sucks too, in a different way. Sure, if you break a leg or have cancer, you will be helped first and should not end up with crippling bills. However, I hope you don't have a mental issue because seeing someone will take multiple months, if not years. I hope you don't need glasses. Or a dentist.

I'm in Quebec and I don't even know about the other provinces, but I have no family doctor since the pandemic. The previous one retired. At one point I was prescribed Concerta, after finally seeing neuropsychologists, but when my doctor retired, I wasn't able to get a new doctor for a follow-up or renewal, so I just stopped. I still have no doctor since the pandemic. The system is so run down that we have to fight for appointments at the walk in clinics. You call at the clinic at 8 AM when they open but they're already full for the day. In fact, they're full at 00:01 AM. When I need to see a doctor, I have to call 811 and get a rendezvous at the walk in clinic.

I understand that it could be much worse, and I appreciate what we have, but it's also very difficult to praise in any possible way.

I don't use healthcare at all because of all the stories I've heard about people getting slapped with medical bills for 1000s of dollars that their insurance decided wasn't covered after all. Not dealing with that shit unless I think I'm dying. Realistically though I'll probably try to sleep whatever ends up killing me off and that will be that.

I'd like one order of Norweigian Citizenship pls.

Wasn’t there a report that every year 25k people die waiting for treatment

I went to an ER for some potential heart issues. They treated me on site in a few hours, but didn't really diagnose anything - I had to go to my primary care doctor for that.

I had to wait 2 months to see him. Then I had to go get labs elsewhere a month later, and wait 2 more months to see my doctor for the results.

I w3nt to the hospital for a suspected heart issue, and didn't get my lab results back for 5 months. Turns out it was stress, and things have improved with anxiety meds, but if I'd actually had a heart issue I would have died.

I live in Texas and have "great insurance."

Oh - and they just dropped coverage for my doctor.