• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Good lord the balls on those liars to claim private insurance doesn’t have long wait times.

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      1 year ago

      Well, lower wait times is a boon of a completely privatized system. But the reason why is something that’s conventiently omitted by those using this argument
      The reason why the US system can boast with less wait times is that care is sought less often because people can’t afford it or fear financial ruin If they seek help for something that wasn’t strictly life threatening to treat.

      So, the queue at the doctor’s become shorter because you kicked out half the people needing help, not because the doctor became faster or something.

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        1 year ago

        yeah and honestly, from my experience, wait times are plenty high. My wife has had to wait months for specialists and weeks just to see the generalist.

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        1 year ago

        is there data to support wait times being faster? because thinking that wait times could be any worse than that already are in the u.s. seems ridiculous. it’s not fast here.

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      1 year ago

      Alberta within the last few months switched from a private company doing lab testing back to the old provincial run system, wait times for appointments went from over a month to a few days for me. And that celebrating was cut short by the fact they want to split up AHS now which is more likely going to screw up a bunch of our healthcare again.