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I'd like to know other non-US citizen's opinions on your health care system are when you read a story like this. I know there are worse places in the world to receive health care, and better. What runs through your heads when you have a medical emergency?

A little background on my question:

My son was having trouble breathing after having a cold for a couple of days and we needed to stop and take the time to see if our insurance would be accepted at the closest emergency room so we didn't end up with a huge bill (like 2000$-5000$). This was a pretty involved ~10 minute process of logging into our insurance carrier, and unsuccessfully finding the answer there. Then calling the hospital and having them tell us to look it up by scrolling through some links using the local search tool on their website. This gave me some serious pause, what if it was a real emergency, like the kind where you have no time to call and see if the closest hospital takes your insurance.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Texas. She probably votes for people telling her she needs to vote against affordable anything, much less single payer health care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Definitely, people health it's a big business, big pharma sell a remedy they don't sell the cure. There isn't a better business than big pharma and privatized health care.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Abolish patents! Free the market!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

First thought is that you need to do that research aa soon as you move to the new house, change your insurance or job.

Second is obvious, strange county you have over there. But I guess most of the people are satisfied with that, as with paying for school.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The problem here is that hospitals do not remain under the same management consistently. Apparently I am responsible for knowing when each of the local hospitals changes administrations (because capitalism and they get bought out) and stops or begins accepting my insurance. When I first moved into my house the closest hospital did NOT accept my insurance, last I checked they do, but that was a few years ago, so who knows now. The hospital closest to me has changed names 3 times in the last 15 years.

It's ridiculous that in an emergency that "when was the last time we checked to make sure that hospital takes our insurance" is even a question.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Some experience of the UK system, I've called for an ambulance twice in the UK recently for what I consider (and any reasonable person would) to be an emergency. Both times I was told it would be about 4 hours wait and could I get someone to drive me to the hospital. My partner has been phoning her GP to try and get an appointment for over two weeks and keeps getting told to phone back 'in a few days' because they have nothing available for over a month, including phone consultation. I've experienced dangerous ineptitude from multiple NHS doctors. I've also seen corruption in that if you know someone who works in the right department you can jump queues. So I've learned from experience to go private if I actually need medical aid.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

I'm a dual citizen, so tbh I miss it, because at least in US I was covered by my parents and health care workers are nicer.

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