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In reply to the discussion: My experience with Universal health Care [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)pandr32
It must be hard to adjust to a system who are so different from the one in Canada. The System have its quarks and sometimes it can be a time between appointment, specially if you have to get more professionals into the game - as with my problems with my knees - sometimes it takes a couple of mounts to get a appointment - And i have sometimes problems getting the appointments right - but thankfully to the calendar on the phone I am getting most of them right now
I doubt it is so bad as some want it to be - most people who are given health care in a universal health care system are given it properly and in time, and the rumors about people dying all the time I would say is very overstated and twisted to almost the unknown for the most part.... But then again if you are just listening to FOX news, you tend to believe what they are telling you I guess....
It is great your mother is given help back home - and it is covered by universal health care - it is far better for people to be able to stay home, in their own home when old an in "bad" health than to be put in a facility where they might not are comfortable at all.. Even if the help they receive is the best you can be given..... And it is always a stress factor when you are sick - even if you are in a comfortable bed, cared and catered for 24/7 if you need it.. You are not back home where you belong.... And old people tend to need the comfort back home instead of in a institution or in a facility...
It is great your sister also got the treatment she needed - without paying a dime for it - I guess paying that nasty taxes is not the worst thing we can do - when you will be given treatment for something you might not know what is - and who would ruin your economy if you was in the US.....
Premature children will have some special needs for many, many years as it often is a hard start on life to be premature - 2 mounts premature is almost on the limits of what is possible even this days and age - I hope her daughter will grow up to a healthy woman when that time comes - and the possibility of disability is less than it might had been if she had not had the attention, and medical need from the hospital..
That's sound like a great thing to do - invite premature children back to the hospital - every now and then, so the children can examine you, and keep a tab on possible health problems before they start at all... And I doubt many hospital are doing the same anywhere else - to have a party, for your all - at no cost... That is a nice touch to it all I would say...
Diclotican