Full title: 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, and treason.
Full title: 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, and treason.
Propaganda has some people convinced that universal healthcare means having to wait for weeks for a medical appointment, and also that even that (made up) problem is worse than not being able to afford to go to the doctor at all
Meanwhile, even if you can afford it, you have to wait for weeks for an appointment under the current system anyway.
The real propaganda is getting those people to someone forget that’s already how it fucking works in the US
dont you months or years, even in places with “low cost or free” it isnt that long. in the states some healthcare providers have weeks or months out for an appointment.
Where I am in Canada we do have problems with wait times, and many people can’t find a family doctor. But it wasn’t always like this. Successive Conservative provincial governments have cut healthcare funding again and again, trying to force people into private for-profit healthcare. It’s the same story in the UK: public healthcare has been undermined by every government since Thatcher’s in the 1980s, and the NHS is not what it was.
Both are still better than the US system though, even after all the cuts. I usually have to wait about 2 weeks to see my doctor unless it’s an emergency. Emergencies can mean an hours-long wait at the hospital. I was recently admitted after an emergency and needed surgery and follow-up examinations including MRI, EKG, ECG, and a whole bunch of other tests with specialists. The care has been very thorough and the doctors excellent, and I have not had to worry once about costs.
Don’t let anyone ever try to tell you that we don’t have massive wait time issues in the US. We do.