AZGrizFan wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:31 am
kalm wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:19 am
Ain’t perfect? It’s a fucking shit show of epic proportions much of which can be simplified by single payer. Remind me again of how we benefit from for-profit insurers and disparate market driven administration and payment systems?
Remind me again how many people clamor to get into countries with universal healthcare? Remind me again how well Canada’s system works?
When I was in 3rd grade, I was playing with an elastic belt with a metal buckle and when I was stretching it, it came unbuckled and the metal buckle hit me in the eye, detaching my retina.
Fast forward 20 years and I'm a college student and decide for the first time I'm going to forego my student insurance and save some money. Well wouldn't you know that's when it was diagnosed during a physical before going to Airborne school. Didn't get to go to Airborne school and this field of vision loss is what kept me from getting my commission.
Anyway, my wife being from close to the Canadian border says that I should go to Regina and see if they can do the surgery. So, I went up to Canada and saw the "simple eye doctor" as Klam would say, and he said he could do the surgery, but couldn't get me in for six months and handed me a chart to track if my retina progressed further.
Total cost was about $3500 vs $15,000 in the states.