Its a feature not a bug.
Trust the Evidence- Intractable waiting lists
We are told that in the NHS in England, more than 7 million people are waiting for a hospital specialist or surgeon or whatever. Over 3 million patients wait over 18 weeks and 370 thousand over a year for treatment.
By any measure, these figures show we have an emergency on our hands – yes, a real one, not model-driven or PCR derived. Presumably, these are folk who have long-standing problems and need help. We do not know the makeup of their pathologies, but all are at risk in the forthcoming NHS winter crisis – we have become modellers and see the future.
Crutches and walkers are cheaper than hip replacement or knee replacement surgery. So it’s crutches for the lot of you old folk! Bah. Humbug! Next … you’ll all be sold for science experiments and your still-functional organs SOLD down at the Amazon organ MART.
The Amazon livers are AMAZING with some onion, although I find the spleens a bit chewy due to age.
Maybe a nice Chianti to help them down?
Pftt pffft pffffttt … creepy. Really creepy scene.
Same as Canada, or any country with government run health insurance that is “free” while suffering from shortages of funding, and doctors.
The US for pay system is the safety valve for Canada, what does the UK have?
French riots. Ask Mark Steyn after his heart attack.
There’s MAID if the pain or depression gets too much for you.
Yep, we see this all the time at one of our hospitals in Bellingham WA. (Peace Health)
Did you fly Dustoff missions? Immense respect if you did.
Along with many Americans and Canadians, I live in Mexico. Retired Americans can have some services paid by Medicare in Mexico or go back to the US for immediate covered treatment. We get no coverage in Mexico and, if we return to Canada, have a 3 month wait for OHIP coverage. In essence, no coverage. Unlike refugees and illegal immigrants in Canada. My wife and I paid over $1 million in taxes during our working lives for which we receive reduced CPP/OAS that was inflation adjusted by less than 6% in 2023.
As a Canadian living permanently in the US, I hear you loud and clear. Mexican healthcare can be very good and quite cheap and you save a lot of money just living there, however.
I’m relocating there myself in the next six months. Maybe we can get Kate to create a thread where we can share tips about relocating and living there as Canadian expats. I know I’m still fumbling my way around it.
Its the Goldfinger moment:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/no-mr-bond-i-expect-you-to-die-showdown-between-goldfinger-and-sean-connery-voted-greatest-james-bond-moment-8435196.html
When Labour is elected to run the UK they will institute a system of triage prioritizing their favored constituent groups because “diversity is our strength”. If you are old, white, native born and particularly if you are conservative then your are out of luck.
It is a feature. Waitlists is how you control costs.
Let us just go back in time and ignore modern medical science. Just go home and die. If you feel bad, too bad.
And yet the morons keep voting for the major parties.
Voting will change nothing. Pitchforks, torches and a lot of guns and ammunition are the only change left. The deep state, permanent political class, whatever you call the leviathan which is a modern western government is unaccountable and intractable. You have to shoot your way out of this.
Sounds like their wait lists are shorter than Canada’s.
When some idiot says “Healthcare in Canada is free”, I say “Yes, Canada is free of healthcare.”
When you ask your doctor for a second opinion and he refers you to ChatGPT…
Personal.
Cancer detected in urine. Veterans Administration. Surgery, two weeks.