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[-] dom@lemmy.ca 23 points 7 months ago

And the Canadians. Our right wing is cutting Healthcare budgets and saying the reason there are long wait times is because it needs to be privatized.

Sad thing is it's working.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 13 points 7 months 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.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 7 months 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.

[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months 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.

[-] Moose@moose.best 3 points 7 months 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.

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

They literally kill people for profit.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago

thats pretty much how everything is ruined in the US. The shining example that disproved it was the postal service and actually medicare and social security and our conservatives have been trying to poison those systems like crazy.

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