What's your Countries' health care?

[JustinNed]

Evening all!

So I was chatting with a good friend of mine who happens to be a Christian Republican and although we have very different views we are good friends. However, let me give you guys a laugh. Once when defending gay mariage rights to him he said, "Ok than, where does it stop, next thing people are gonna wanna marry sheep!" which was the entire argument.

Anyways, I keep hearing from right wingers that the Gov ran health care is so bad that for instance, in Canada a 70 year old can't get a new hip to replace a broken one because, "it can go to someone better." Is anyone ever refused medical service like in here?
Also, I keep hearing things like, "In Canada it takes 6 weeks to get a heart transplant etc."

I'm just wondering about all your opionins on your Countries health care.

 

[Forkbender]

It's better to get a replacement heart in 6 weeks than not being able to afford one at all, IMHO.

 

[Mr.Smith]

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[st.bot.32]

hey, that sounds a lot like our healthcare!

you might even live, if the doc isn't in such a rush that he doesn't notice your pleurisy after you've waited in the emergency room all day gasping.. and then sends you home with a few tylenol..!

 

[GOD]

Here we have to pay medical insurance , and 10 es a quarter to go to the doctors , plus the prescription costs to the chemists . The system is on its last legs but "IF" they notice that you have something they are very good at getting rid of it .

 

[JustinNed]

Sounds to me like Michael Moore's 'Sicko' is at least 1/2 bullshit than.

 

[GOD]

Whats bullshit about it ?

 

[JustinNed]

Well the way he makes it seem that the health care in the US is Horrible and for good medical you need to go up to Canada or something.

 

[GOD]

It is nasty in the US one has to pay or get no treatment . Here if there is an emergency i go to the emergency department and they cure first and ask questions later .

My treatment costs up to 75000 euros wich i couldnt posibly pay . I get a free card for the rest of the year after i have paid the first 42 euros for medicine from the chemists and for the quater costs for my doctor . That means that for the whole treatment i pay only 84 euros , and i can go to any other doctors and dentists as the free card pays for them as well .

 

[JustinNed]

Sounds like it's not a very good system all the way around. I got enough medical insurance through my job in case I need anything like that, however my Dental insurance isn't nearly as good and I can't get the work done I need (several crowns, possibly a root canal).
Currently there's a very large growth in my gums coming in where my top left Wisdom tooth would have been that is pushing out teeth as it grows in size. Sadly I don't have the cash to get it removed, too bad it's benign than Medical would cover it.

 

[GOD]

The medical care is exelent and if i need an apointment with a specialist it takes not more than 2 weeks . Its just a pain about the running around and the paying here and there .

The thing about insurance is how much do people pay ? I pay 168 euros a month plus the 42 in a year . That includes everything for my health includeing stays in hospital .

 

[silv]

in the UK we get free health care

what this means is, we spend our whole working life paying health insurance to the government, then when we get ill all we have to do is wait a year or two to be treated in a filthy hospital by doctors who havnt slept for 24 hours, then recieve free gifts such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and necrotizing fasciitis. its a wonderfull system, the envy of many a third world country!

Why don't you try going to a poorer country. I for one know that a friend of mine (who's been a doctor in afghanistan for 10 years or so) used to take out the metal pins for a broken leg without anaesthesia (or however you spell that). Why don't you try that some time, can't be worse than your healthcare can it?

 

[GOD]

As a tourist in foreign countrys i always got helped very well and for nothing . In moroco the only medical staf in the area were at a pregnancy clinic . They were very nice and helped me for free when i had burned myself . Doctors are doctors and if they help who cares where they come from .

I know doctors and dentists here that sometimes tell me that the injection hurts more than the treatment and have had them do cuts and drill without an anesthetic . I didnt notice anything . In the west i think that we are trained that pain hurts and to fear it .

We are lucky .

 

[tryptonaut]

Well here in Germany people are also complaining that the healthcare got so much worse because they have to pay 10 Euro once every three months IF they go to the doctor, and because doctors won't prescribe you Aspirine anymore and you won't get it for free.

It really used to be like that - you went to the doctor's office, told him you had a headache, he gave you a prescription for aspirine and then you got it in the drugstore for free. I don't have to tell you this was nonsense and not good for the healthcare system.

A healthcare payment is mandatory, it got more expensive in the last years, but it's bearable, the "you can have anything you want for free" period is over, but real treatment is still very good.

When I was 18 my doctor sent me to the hospital to look into a weird knob on my cheekbone right below my right eye. It was operated on by the head surgeon Professor Dr. Dr. don't-know-his-name-anymore, and I spent over a week in hospital in a comfy two-bed room. It turned out the knob on the bone was just a scar, not a tumor (phew!)
In the US I am sure I would not have had this surgery because it definitely cost a lot of money and it was made just to be sure there wasn't a tumor.
Did I mention it didn't cost me a cent?

 

[GOD]

Here nearly every doctor has his own Xray machine and other gadgets that in other countrys one has to go to hospital to be examined with . I`m glad i live here and not in a medical third world country like the US or the ununited kingdom .

 

[n0p]

Well in my particular country I pay a fixed fee of 15 euros a month for national health insurance. A visit to the dentist is 2.27euro. Operations & hospital stay I have to pay 10% the govt pays the rest.