Post As8xHrdJOyUxM02WIq by quanin@allovertheplace.ca
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(DIR) Post #As8xHoVP1vOBebJf3g by gocu54@caneandable.social
2025-03-16T21:39:51Z
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People legit want communist healthcare and communist living. Craziness!
(DIR) Post #As8xHpVRJH0ql0LCkq by quanin@allovertheplace.ca
2025-03-17T05:00:01Z
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@gocu54 Universal health care is not communist. Source: I live in Canada, which is not a communist country, and we have universal health care. As a disabled person, you right now have access to what you call communist health care.
(DIR) Post #As8xHqa5JUK45hWQdM by gocu54@caneandable.social
2025-03-17T05:04:26Z
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@quanin Yeah, but insurance isn't free, isn't it the same thing?
(DIR) Post #As8xHrdJOyUxM02WIq by quanin@allovertheplace.ca
2025-03-17T05:10:08Z
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@gocu54 Not quite. The insurance is provided by the government and paid for with your taxes. There's no such thing as a co-pay, there's no likelihood that the expensive surgery you need won't be covered by your insurance and so you'll need to go several hundred thousands of dollars into debt, and people who are unemployed like you are are still covered. So rather than working a shitty minimum wage job that kills your soul because that's the only way you can have health insurance, you can actually work a job that doesn't make you want to put your gun in your mouth. You're probably on your parents' health insurance right now, so you're shielded from this part. But if you weren't, it would be like your state's medicare/medicaid coverage. Not exactly the same, but similar to. Oh, and there's no such thing as an out of network doctor.
(DIR) Post #As8xHsYjxSR4E6uNoe by gocu54@caneandable.social
2025-03-17T05:11:26Z
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@quanin Nope, I have my own insurance, though it is medicare and not private insurance like my brother.
(DIR) Post #As8xHtOUr1psod7iUK by quanin@allovertheplace.ca
2025-03-17T05:13:10Z
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@gocu54 Ah. So it works sort of similarly to that, except that it's entirely funded by your taxes and that's everyone's baseline of coverage. We still have private health insurance options, but if you can't afford that, don't want that, or your employer doesn't provide that, you still have health care. But the major diference is I don't need to phone around to find out which doctors accept my insurance. They all do.
(DIR) Post #As8xHtzicdbsg4XRVQ by Bruce@allovertheplace.ca
2025-03-17T05:19:59Z
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@quanin @gocu54 And a tip, if you're Canadian and go to the US, for pete's sake get insurance. I was in the hospital there for a few days some years ago, and if I hadn't signed up for the best travel insurance available to me through work, I would have had to pay fourteen thousand dollars.
(DIR) Post #As8xHuZsSCX8UDSJrk by quanin@allovertheplace.ca
2025-03-17T05:21:03Z
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@Bruce @gocu54 Oh yeah, definitely have some kind of insurance on you if you go to the US. The US is brokoen. But we're not a whole lot better up here if you're coming the other way.
(DIR) Post #As8xHvMnWJfIvwLO7M by mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca
2025-03-17T10:41:24Z
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@quanin @Bruce @gocu54 I sprained my ankle at guide dog school while in the states. I was brought to a clinic that took an Xray right away, got the results within minutes, was given crutches and also offered pain killers. I was out of there within 15 minutes. It was truly amazing. And yes, I had travel insurance. In Canada, I would have had to go to emergency , get assessed, then wait up to 10 hours before being seen. And that's not an exageration, as I also sprained my ankle here as well. Opposite ankle. lol!
(DIR) Post #As8xHw6AnbxfCfZcqO by HonkHonkBoom@poa.st
2025-03-17T10:58:02.253026Z
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@mcourcel @quanin @Bruce @gocu54 The 10hr wait in an emergency is the more common American experience these days, insurance or not.. yours is quite the exception... although, we do have urgent care clinics for more minor things that can be quite quick if you live in a nicer area.,.
(DIR) Post #As8xaUh8uSqLiLiO80 by quanin@allovertheplace.ca
2025-03-17T10:59:11Z
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@HonkHonkBoom @Bruce @mcourcel @gocu54 This. I haven't been to Toronto for a bit so I'm not sure if urgent care clinics are a thing there, but they're not a thing really in Ottawa. See also: the underfunding I mentioned earlier.
(DIR) Post #As8xaW7laxja9DBAGW by HonkHonkBoom@poa.st
2025-03-17T11:01:34.320830Z
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@quanin @Bruce @mcourcel @gocu54 urgent care can be a 4 or 5 hour wait or not even be seen if its a shitty area.. 'urgent care' is replaced by walk in clinics in poorer areas for most part, and those are first come first serve and usually packed out the door from the time their open