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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

Yes, Canada has become, a u/CleverFoolOfEarth put it, a real dystopia. It's where I live.

I got a doctor prescription to see a Lyme disease specialist in spring 2018. I was supposed to be allocated an appointment date in september 2019 for an actual appointment in september 2020 or so. Of course we had to have a scamdemic, so now we are in 2022 and I don't even yet have AN APPOINTMENT, much less actual medical care from our "wonderful" and "free" disease strengthening and enhancement ("health care") system.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Why don't you hit up all the ER's in town until someone treats you?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

You truly have zero idea what you are talking about, do you? This is a complex illness for which only a very tiny few specialists exist in our province. For the longest time, the bureaucracy did not recognize that Lyme disease exists in Québec at all! And I must mention, no matter how obvious this is, that people actually travel and can get sick with illnesses they catch somewhere else. I got mine in Australia while consulting with client athletes.

But that is precisely the point: BUREAUCRACY gives zero fucks. There are no market forces opening up an opportunity for a doctor to learn about that illness and be THE ONLY ONE doctor who can do something about it in the entire province.

Some bureaucrat somewhere in an office has to be convinced that something has to be done about this illness, then he has to have committees discuss what and how and when and where to get the funding and where to put these fucking doctors and then actually find the education and MAKE these doctors so that the illness system can finally handle the condition.

Just this last part can EASILY take a decade when the government is responsible for doing things. And then they will allocate just enough resources to treat the number of patients they had when they began researching this initiative, which means their joke of a "healthcare" system will be backlogged to hell by the time they actually start seeing patients.

Many people have died of this illness in my province out of not having been able to get proper medical care. ZERO FUCKS GIVEN.

And emergency wards of hopitals here: I have shown up with broken limbs and got to see a doctor within only 13 hours. Just imagine a chronic illness, if they even knew what to do about it, which they don't: WE WILL SEE YOU WHEN THE ER IS COMPLETELY EMPTY, THAT IS... NEVER.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

If you want to just sit on your ass and complain instead of finding someone to treat you then fine by me. Here in the southern USA we have Lyme disease all over the place and every GP in town knows about it. Maybe take a trip to Florida and find yourself a small town mountain doctor to get you fixed up.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

You really have zero idea what you are talking about. These are treatments that last for months and require multiple follow-ups. Please, stop embarrassing yourself by speaking out your ass, it's the same shit that comes out your mouth.

THE WHOLE POINT of my post is that no, our "healthcare" system isn't better than the US one. And you agree with me, which is a feat considering the cesspool universe which obviously characterizes your mind, as evidenced from its output.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

OK, then sit on your ass and don't do anything about it. No skin off my back.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Again, the cesspool perspective at work. Impressive.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The take it in the ass and do nothing about it perspective at work. Stupid.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Retard projects his retardedness, assuming I am doing nothing because literally the best HE could do is go to the doctor. Double-digit IQ is not something you should flaunt, FYI.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Passive acceptance of a condition that should be treated is stupid. Were you droppped as a child?

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you think bureaucracy isn't a problem in the US?

Oh your doctor wants you to get a PET scan? Some bureaucrat in the insurance office said no, how about a CT scan instead? Oh that won't catch what they are looking for? Well, do it anyway and then wait three weeks and maybe we'll approve the PET scan. And just hope that those weeks aren't critical in your cancer treatment. Thanks for playing.

Unless you show up with a briefcase of cash, you're dealing with shitty bullshit bureaucracy in the US as well. We've just moved it to middlemen so they can skim some $ off the top.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, I am not saying the system in the USA is perfect: it is incredibly expensive and yes, "insurance" is truly more of a scam than actual protection.

"The rich stay healthy and the sick stay poor."

No society can ever be truly prosperous and allow for individual creativity without getting rid of political representatives, because such "representation" leads to corruption and cronyism. As such, the so-called "free markets" of the USA are imaginary. There aren't any. How do you get rid of representatives?

There are two options: National Socialism / Nazism, and localized direct democracy. Anything else crushes the creative drive of the individual and leads into regression instead of improvement.