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I guess it's okay here. There are flaws though, like the fact that provincial health care in Ontario (where I live) stops covering vision care at age 16, unless you have a congenital eye condition like I do (so my vision care is always covered). Dental care is not covered at all, and I'm not covered under my dad's insurance anymore (that stopped at 21), so I haven't been to the dentist in nearly 3 years because I can't afford it, and I certainly can't afford private insurance at the moment.

But everything else is pretty much covered, at least the basic things.

Taxman

So I'm not good at explaining this since this is a field I'm not a specialist and so my English is letting me down, but however.
I had some heart problems, too quick pulse or something, so there was a need for a research if there is anything more serious. Those heart problems were only a side effect of this depression and tress and anxiety, said the doctor.

However, I went to the public hospital or whatever it is, and they sent me to some private hospital or whatever where they did that research.
But it only did pay something like 50 euros,it should have paid something like three or four hundreds, but because of our taxes it did pay only that leas. And it was quick,no long queues or anything. So basically I think it did work out fine.

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Having been to a Jamaican hospital before, I can definitely say that it would be pretty hard to shock me.

As far as it goes with hospitals in my own country, as Engine said the wait times you described are pretty typical. The quality of healthcare varies a lot from place to place in the US and I'm lucky enough to live in a part of the country that's known for having pretty high quality healthcare, but even so the wait times are long, the costs are high and the insurance companies are always trying to screw you.

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djchameleon

I've heard Canadians complain about long waiting times at ER. So it is just a case by case basis and BD seems to luck out.

Also is it that violent/accident prone in your area that so many high priorities are coming in TH?

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Trollheart

No moreso than anywhere else. As everywhere, drink plays its part and you'll find a lot of those coming in are blitzed or high. Also, we have a large-ish East European immigrancy and they tend to apparently settle perfectly simple arguments not with words or a punch or kick but with knives, screwdrivers or, in one case, a smashed mug...

It will of course be busier at the weekend, when everyone seems to think it's ok to go crazy in town just because you've spent five days either at work or hanging around street corners. Then there's the junkies, plenty of them. As Steph says, emergency patients first sure, but ffs my sister had a pain in her chest and her arm ws numb and it was still hours before a doctor came to see her. That could have been a heart attack (although they did sort of rule that out both in the ambulance and triage): I don;t want to see her as yet another statistic where they say oh we thought she was ok so we're sorry she died. Happens rather a lot here, thank you Fne Gael and Labour, our wonderful coalition government and your constant savage cuts in the health service while you ****ers all go private...

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I have never heard about anyone complaining about super long wait times here. I don't know where Americans get this idea or what they hear about our system down there. I had to wait longer in a Detroit hospital than I have ever had to wait here, and I was more seriously ill. I got worse the longer I waited. Maybe it's also a case by case basis in the US, but at the time I thought how ridiculous it was for Americans to always go on and on about how great it is there and how they don't have to wait. In hindsight, I should have gone back across the border to a hospital in Windsor but time was of the essence.

The longest I've had to wait to see a specialist was probably 2 weeks at the most as well. Not too bad considering that he has a full roster of patients.

I think it definitely makes a difference that I live in a large urban centre. But there is still overcrowding in hospitals here, especially in labour and delivery wards (I have heard about women in hospitals here having to give birth in the hallway, out in public, because there were no delivery beds).

The Batlord

Republican fear mongering generally. They pretty much do everything but claim that it's a sin against god to make sure we never get it.

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Yeah, because the system is socialist. To GOP supporters, socialism = so bad the whole universe will immediately implode, yet they probably still use services like USPS, libraries, and send their kids to public school.

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Shh.

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Currently on a study permit in Canada and it's seemed to have met all my needs just fine, so far, but my health concerns are minimal.

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