NTK: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) invited Canadian doctor Danielle Martin on “The Bernie Sanders Show” to discuss the benefits of a single-payer health care system. However, Dr. Martin told Sanders about how Canadians experience year-long wait times under their health care system.
“If I have a patient who’s got migraines and I need advice on how to manage it, they might wait several months to see a neurologist for a non-urgent problem,” Martin told Sanders.
Martin informed Sanders that patients who need a non-urgent surgery like a hip replacement or knee replacement would also have to wait several months.
Sanders followed up by asking Martin how long it would take for someone needing a non-urgent surgery to get that surgery.
“It depends on where you are in the country. Sometimes it’s a few months sometimes it’s a year,” Martin responded. “In some places, at sometimes it’s been even longer than that. That people wait for a hip or knee replacement.”
For Bernie that’s no problem to him as he has the golden senate health insurance. He won’t have to wait for nothing. So, all’s good.
Don’t confuse Bernie with facts he has pharm pacs, insurance pacs and and the destruction of America to deal with.
If they want to pass it, just make sure that all congress and their staff are included in the same law.
Bike Mike, yeah, like that is going to happen.
Where I live in BC, “Doc in the boxes” close early in the day because they have reached their quota of patients that they can see. It is next to impossible to find a family doctor who is willing to take on new patients.
I guess that explains why Canada seems to be full of young people: no one survives long enough to get old.
Simple equation: single payer = Veteran’s Medical system. They are STILL dying, as they wait for treatment.
Then think of this; veterans EARNED this privelege of 💩tty care by serving this country! Where does that leave middle America??? Up the 💩Creek.
KOREAN WOMAN I MET
She flew ALL THE WAY BACK TO SEOUL to get a minor invasive surgery even though she lived in a big city with many hospital choices.
She said it was cheaper to get round-trip airfare, surgery, hospital recovery, medicine, and follow-up than to take the bus to the local hospital. She said the cost would have bankrupted her even with insurance.
Medical tourism is big business. The hospital staff speaks English and studied in America. So, I don’t know why Canadians wait a year?
People from Canada come to the US for critical healthcare, if they can afford it. Comrade sanders just wants to spend other people’s money while he bankrupts our country and he enjoys his cadillac congressional health insurance.
Stop congressional investment in medicine, too. Congress is privy to intelligence prior to legislative passage, and they invest accordingly, before such knowledge or opportunity is available to the public:
“Sure, members of Congress are profiting from their positions — with nearly one in eight stock trades by congresspersons intersecting with legislation — but does that necessarily mean they are profiting at the expense of their constituents and society?
We think the answer is a clear yes. For example, one industry that has a direct impact on Americans — and gives a lot of money to elected officials — is big pharma. …”
https://hbr.org/2017/02/the-growing-conflict-of-interest-problem-in-the-u-s-congress
I lived in Canada for the last ten years after living in the US for fifty-five years. There’s no comparison in the quality of care between the two, the US being far superior and much more available.
“Other than that, Doctor, how’s your retirement fund doing these days?”