I agree with the message, but why did you need gemini to make this?
And many go bankrupt with insurance, what a bad system.
Luigi is a motherfucking American hero. Make sure you donate to his legal fund if you can!
He didn’t even do anything, I was playing chess with him at the time of Brian Thompson’s murder
For real, I was there we were taking turns!
Is “playing chess” what they’re calling it these days? Giggity.
No need to wait at all when for-profit insurance tells you it’s just not covered! So efficient. Best system ever.
I once had a conversation with a coworker who was complaining that he couldn’t afford to go to the Dr for a fucked up back, I brought up how most 1st world countries have health care for everyone.
Dude said " yeah fuck that, I don’t want to wait to see a doctor"
It’s just so fucking stupid.
I just had to wait for 3 weeks to get a refill on my daily asthma inhaler, one and a half of them without my meds. There was some sort of supply issue with my regular one, so had to get a new one prescribed. I had to deal with going back and forth with the pharmacy, doc office, and insurance company to finally get the approved brands/prior authorizations figured out. I’m glad my asthma isn’t too bad right now despite being allergy season.
I’m taking a wild guess here, but I’m guessing that folks in places with universal healthcare don’t have to deal with this sort of bullshit.
Kind of. I’m in Germany (but from the US), and while it’s leagues and leagues better than the US, I recently had a similar issue. I was prescribed a daily generic medication that comes in increments of 100, which had some supply issues. The name brand version comes in increments of 30, so I had to get my prescription rewritten for 90 pills instead of 100, because they couldn’t just dispense less medication than I was prescribed.
I ended up going two days without my medication, but it was still better than in a non universal healthcare system. I used the same medication in the US, and regularly had to skip a day or two around refills (once it took over a month to actually get my refill), plus I was only able to fill one month at a time and had to pay way more. In the US, I had to pay for: a monthly doctor’s visit, a drug test to make sure I was taking my medication, and a high prescription cost ($50-$330/month, depending on whether I’d reached my deductible and whether it was a generic or not). In Germany, I pay 8.50€/month for the brand name or 10€/3 months for the generic, no cost for doctor’s visits and no required drug test.
Luigi should have sparked a revolt. It’s a shame it fizzled out without even starting.
They were like “we can’t encourage copycat crimes” and i was more like “we should be so lucky!”
In Germany that’s fitting though (in most cases). Privately insured I just go to most docs when I need to, don’t have to wait for an appointment and don’t have to wait when I’m there.
People tell me they’ll sometimes have to wait maaaany months for an appointment. Even years for areas like psychotherapy.
Still better than the USA though, obviously.
A lot of people I hear IRL complaining about wait times are also the kinds of people that go to the ER for a non-emergency. Of course you’re gonna be waiting a long time at the ER if the only thing you’re there for is you have a cold. That’s for serious, life-threatening shit snd triage would treat you the same whether you had to pay or not.
Recently had to go to A&E (ER) in UK.
I was seen by a triage nurse in under 5 minutes. I had a wound on my leg that was only not bleeding due to a tourniquet. Was sent to the waiting room. A women there was complaining they’d been waiting 6 hours for her kid who was running laps of the room.
I was seen in under 20 minutes.
2 hours later as I was on my way home having had my leg stitched up and they were still waiting.
The “wait times” line was always bullshit. Many of us live in other countries, and we almost never have long wait times. That’s reality. The end.
You can believe us, as we tell you about our lives, or you can believe a scam artist who’s getting rich while watching you get sick and die.
Over 90% of Democrats want universal healthcare, along with over 60% of Independents and even 30%+ of Republican voters.
So, a huge majority of people in the USA want the same healthcare as Canada, UK, Japan, Poland… (huge list of dozens of civilized countries).
The Democrats have used this issue to win elections since the 1990s. The USA gives billions of dollars to people around the world, most of whom have universal healthcare themselves.
We’re the wealthiest of these nations by far, but unfortunately, the wealth is top heavy, and those wealthy people are paying US reps a gigantic pile of money to keep things as they are, so that they can make even more enormous piles of money.
That’s it, it’s pretty simple. IF ONLY we lived in a republic with representatives that work for their constituency!
That would be neat.
What about corporations? They don’t need healthcarr and they are people too!
Quite a few years ago my daughter needed an appointment with our private insurance doctor. Wait list was about a month. She had to go back to college before then, which was in Ontario, so no help. Saw a doctor in Canada the day after she arrived back.
I live in a country with universal healthcare. In 6 weeks I went from an ambulance to hospital, to surgery to remove a tumor from my abdomen. And for the last 3 years I’ve had 3 monthly CT scans and a meeting with my oncologist. It has never cost me a penny.
You have to wait under the current system, too. I’d rather not be paying $500/mo for the privilege.
Well if you wait, they still get the money each month. Win for them.
When would you like to see your primary care doctor? We have an appointment slot in 6 months you have no idea if you can get the day off for, but you can waitlist for an earlier appointment cancellation that you probably won’t be available for either…
And your PCP will only have 5 minutes to spend with you when you do get an appointment because insurance companies have turned health care into car repair work. Physicians get paid by the job (patient), the job pays “x” time, the insurance pays the least it can per job, so the medical office crams and many jobs into the alotted time as possible so they can make money.
But you don’t have to wait in the American Health Care System.
