Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
I use universal healthcare all the time. It is my primary health care provider. I have been sick for 2 1/2 weeks now. Head congestion, my eardrum burst 2 Sunday's ago...went to the emergency room and got 2 shots and a supply of Amoxicillan. The congestion moved to the other ear, then to a sore throat, then my eye got some kind of gook in it and is really red. I figure it is all related. Emergency room Dr. said to go to Family Practice in a couple of weeks to get the eardrum re-evaluated. Can't get an appointment during that time so have to go as a "walk-in" yesterday. Got there, checked in, sat down & waited for 20 minutes. Some lady comes out and says, "If you are here as a walk-in we have cancelled all walk-in visits for today. If you are really bad you are welcome to go to the emergency room. Sorry." I am not emergency room sick so I just went home. Is this how it works in the real world of Doctors and hospitals or is this just isolated to my universal health care system?
Got news for you....that wasn't Universal Health Care you experienced...you just got an up close and personal taste of our for-profit health care system....where emergency and free health care clinics are at the mercy of State funds/rulings and limited federal subsidy or private donations.
You experienced what many working poor and poor folk experience every day across the country....that is NOT universal health care.
A universal healthcare system would have enacted funding and mandates so folk in your condition wouldn't have been left by the way side or as dismal.
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