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    55 hours ago

    And as a Canadian, I hear Americans talking about how we wait so long for care.

    We do, but not for anything that is life threatening.

    I don’t mind waiting for an x-ray for something routine if some kid needs an x-ray to figure out if his skull is cracked or something.

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      3 hours ago

      Rest assured, that’s just rhetoric peddled by and for useful idiots to “justify” why things shouldn’t change.

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      oh yea, emergencies, cancer diagnosis usually doesnt wait that long in EU too, just regular appts. even in the states if your own "state subsidized healthcare, you can also be waiting months or even almost 6 months for a appt, secondly you will also encounter rude employees that just hangs up on you too. i was in an insurance based medical facility/hospitals, its barely occupied most of the time, so i think the insurance just like justfying the increasecost of the insurance by building unnecessary facilities, before 26, my previous insurance was doing just that and still doing to this day.

      also some insurance in general are allergic to older people too, they price them out, they have no need to “drop people from thier insurance” , when they can just price them out, this also helps them skew results like denials or getting terminated from thier insurance.