That's literally not even how prescriptions in Canada work, you need coverage from your employer or you're on the hook for all of it. The free healthcare meme is hilarious.
Its fucking awful dude. The wait times are insane, we're talking 3-6 month wait times to get tests for serious health concerns.
Don't you dare fall for this shit.
Only 3-6 months? I had to book an appointment to a clinic (through a centralized system, so any clinic or hospital and any doctor will do) for a back injury which had me completely bedridden at home for a week and some change.
There was absolutely nothing available, no possibility for an appointment, ever. I don't recall how far ahead their calendar went, but it was something grotesque, and every possible day and hour was already booked.
I eventually slipped through some loophole by specifying it was a workplace accident (which it was), so I was able to see a doctor a few days later.
They gave me a doctor-mandated two weeks off of work to recover, a prescription for physiotherapy and a prescription for anti-inflammatory pills.
My insurance card was expired (hadn't been to a doctor in 14 years), so I had to pay for the visit (costs like 90$). I pay much more than that every month just to cover our "free" healthcare.
We also have "free" public insurances (which you pay through the ass on every paycheck) covering workplace accidents such as these, so in theory you get 70-80% of your salary while on leave following an accident, but since my back pain only manifested after I got home from work that day and not at the workplace itself, they retroactively denied my claim, and so I now owe them the money they paid me before denying my claim. I don't intend on paying them back.
>the doctor is a pajeet from a diploma mill in india, and not an actual doctor >the pills are just SSRI's or antibacterials and not what you actually need >the waiting lists are so long the walk in clinics require call ins to set appointments >most people don't even have a family doctor they have to go to walkins, urgent care, or the emergency room to get treated at all >there's so many immigrants clogging up the system no doctor can be assed to spend more than 5 minutes with you; he's got a thousand people to get through today >the lifesaving "free" care, like a PET scan, x-ray, MRI, etc. has such a backlog it will take a year to get done, if you have any serious or terminal illness you can just die in the meanwhile >if you want to get high quality medical care in a timely fashion you have to pay thousands of dollars for private medicine in a place like the united states, because it's illegal for an MRI clinic to give you an MRI in exchange for $800 in the "free healthcare" societies
Oh yeah. It's great. You bet.
So long as the worst thing you have is a scraped knee.
Well for starters, the free part is a lie. They tried to do it here already with Obamacare, and it got shot down. You can't force people to pay into something they don't want. Deal with it, communist.
You have already collapsed. You were disarmed and restricted from offending protected classes with noises from your mouth. The penalty is a frozen bank account and a ban from protesting.
You will memorize the pronouns, do the DEI training, and confess your privilege.
Tell us your pronouns leaf, tellu now or we will call rainbow socks castro to rape your pretty pink butthole with a pack of naggers
In Australia you be waiting 4 weeks to see a doctor to get a medical certificate that isn't valid because they don't back date it. It takes 12 months minium to get basic care that should only take a month to heal.
Doctors will refer you to get test so they don't treat you. They will refer you to 15 other doctors before you get a doctor that isn't stupid.
A buddy of mine in the UK visited the US for the first time last month. Almost immediately after arriving he contracted some "virus" (he wouldn't tell me what it was specifically) but it left him unable to walk and blind in one eye. He was in a hospital in Ohio for a few weeks and finally got back to the UK a few days ago and he's been on Facebook constantly complaining about how terrible the UK health system is compared to the US. He's been in a hospital bed in a hallway for 12 hours, then they made him leave the bed and sit in a chair in a dark hallway for 3 days because there were no rooms available
>hospitals were overburdened with covid
they stopped doing elective surgeries because they expected to be overburdened with covid. But then the covid wave never came and you had all those tiktoks of nurses dancing in empty OR rooms because nothing was going on.
shut the fuck up
>free
Actually this is inaccurate, in Canada the doctor would offer to kill you instead and in bongland you'd be on a 3 month waiting list
Truth. My grandmother had a hip problem (fractured?); UK NHS wait was 8 months to see a specialist.
In Canada the pills are cyanide.
>I have a stomach ache
>have you considered suicide?
Classic Canadian healthcare
>in Canada the doctor would offer to kill you
it's not free and it diminishes quality and access to 'care'
>free
>don't worry we took thousands of dollars out of your paychecks through taxes
Kek they do that in the USA too. Ours isn’t even free.
>free
go back
>free
neck yourself. now.
That's literally not even how prescriptions in Canada work, you need coverage from your employer or you're on the hook for all of it. The free healthcare meme is hilarious.
Its fucking awful dude. The wait times are insane, we're talking 3-6 month wait times to get tests for serious health concerns.
Don't you dare fall for this shit.
Yeah I had to wait a few months myself for some tests here
Only 3-6 months? I had to book an appointment to a clinic (through a centralized system, so any clinic or hospital and any doctor will do) for a back injury which had me completely bedridden at home for a week and some change.
There was absolutely nothing available, no possibility for an appointment, ever. I don't recall how far ahead their calendar went, but it was something grotesque, and every possible day and hour was already booked.
I eventually slipped through some loophole by specifying it was a workplace accident (which it was), so I was able to see a doctor a few days later.
They gave me a doctor-mandated two weeks off of work to recover, a prescription for physiotherapy and a prescription for anti-inflammatory pills.
My insurance card was expired (hadn't been to a doctor in 14 years), so I had to pay for the visit (costs like 90$). I pay much more than that every month just to cover our "free" healthcare.
We also have "free" public insurances (which you pay through the ass on every paycheck) covering workplace accidents such as these, so in theory you get 70-80% of your salary while on leave following an accident, but since my back pain only manifested after I got home from work that day and not at the workplace itself, they retroactively denied my claim, and so I now owe them the money they paid me before denying my claim. I don't intend on paying them back.
0/10 would not play again
it comes out of your tax payer money meaning they rob you more
>the doctor is a pajeet from a diploma mill in india, and not an actual doctor
>the pills are just SSRI's or antibacterials and not what you actually need
>the waiting lists are so long the walk in clinics require call ins to set appointments
>most people don't even have a family doctor they have to go to walkins, urgent care, or the emergency room to get treated at all
>there's so many immigrants clogging up the system no doctor can be assed to spend more than 5 minutes with you; he's got a thousand people to get through today
>the lifesaving "free" care, like a PET scan, x-ray, MRI, etc. has such a backlog it will take a year to get done, if you have any serious or terminal illness you can just die in the meanwhile
>if you want to get high quality medical care in a timely fashion you have to pay thousands of dollars for private medicine in a place like the united states, because it's illegal for an MRI clinic to give you an MRI in exchange for $800 in the "free healthcare" societies
Oh yeah. It's great. You bet.
So long as the worst thing you have is a scraped knee.
>free
You don't seem to know the meaning of the words you type out
>It’s just free!
>No one is paying for it!
The pills are poison.
Well for starters, the free part is a lie. They tried to do it here already with Obamacare, and it got shot down. You can't force people to pay into something they don't want. Deal with it, communist.
Maybe if you have a stomach ache you should just stay home and deal with it
prescriptions arent free
i dont know where you got that idea
but after waitin 24 hours to see a doc you cant afford the pills
>not posting the real version
retard.
I love how we are eternally 2 more weeks away from complete collapse.
You have already collapsed. You were disarmed and restricted from offending protected classes with noises from your mouth. The penalty is a frozen bank account and a ban from protesting.
You will memorize the pronouns, do the DEI training, and confess your privilege.
Tell us your pronouns leaf, tellu now or we will call rainbow socks castro to rape your pretty pink butthole with a pack of naggers
In Australia you be waiting 4 weeks to see a doctor to get a medical certificate that isn't valid because they don't back date it. It takes 12 months minium to get basic care that should only take a month to heal.
Doctors will refer you to get test so they don't treat you. They will refer you to 15 other doctors before you get a doctor that isn't stupid.
The medical system is so egregiously stupid
I fucking hate medicare
You mean tax payer funded healthcare right? No doctor works for free.
A buddy of mine in the UK visited the US for the first time last month. Almost immediately after arriving he contracted some "virus" (he wouldn't tell me what it was specifically) but it left him unable to walk and blind in one eye. He was in a hospital in Ohio for a few weeks and finally got back to the UK a few days ago and he's been on Facebook constantly complaining about how terrible the UK health system is compared to the US. He's been in a hospital bed in a hallway for 12 hours, then they made him leave the bed and sit in a chair in a dark hallway for 3 days because there were no rooms available
jesus christ
my local hospital has dozens of rooms open all the time.
This. Ive seen hospitals in Riga and was horrified. Dental care there is completely deficient.
Like a recliner in a hallway or just a fuckin upright chair?
Looked like one of those hospital room chairs where it leans back slightly
Do you like DMV? You do understand that DMV employees would be handling your healthcare, right?
it shoul´ve have said:
"dont worry your taxes already paid your treatment".
1pbtid healthcare should be free thread. Usually posted with a tweet or comic that can be refuted in 2 sentences to make replying even more tempting.
>Is free healthcare really that bad?
>hospitals were overburdened with covid
they stopped doing elective surgeries because they expected to be overburdened with covid. But then the covid wave never came and you had all those tiktoks of nurses dancing in empty OR rooms because nothing was going on.