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Originally Posted by dirtysouth
That estimate includes illegals. IE: It's skewed.
And nationalized healthcare is fail. You want to wait MONTHS for a procedure?
GO USSA!
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Actually in some cases you already do. A friend of mine has had a hip problem she has been dealing with for months. She went to her regular doctor which took her about 10 days to get in to see as a non-emergency. He needed to send her to someone else. It was a three week wait for that. That guy wanted an MRI. It took three more weeks just to get the approval from insurance and get in for the test (they denied it once and the doctor had to call and tell them why he needed it). After the test two more weeks went by as they waited for the doctor to see the results. Finally the diagnosis was made and they decided to give her a cortisone shot in her hip to see if that would help it heal. It took two more weeks of waiting to get in to see the guy that would give the shot. So when people say that medical care is ultra swift in the US it is kind of a myth. If you just want a check up or have a cold or something like that or you have a life threatening thing you can get in and get taken care of pretty quickly, but if you have anything more than that it could be a while.
Maybe it would get worse under national care, maybe not.