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re: How great is governor run healthcare? 13 months to get an MRI for a possible brain tumor.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:15 pm to Pezzo
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:15 pm to Pezzo
quote:Yep.
Broke my big toe today. Went to the walk in an hour before it closed, they had me out of there with an xray within 15 minutes. I know xray is not a MRI, but damn if it wasn’t a quick visit.
Canada sucks.
Lafayette has two orthopedic walk-in clinics that are probably half the cost of an emergency room and a fraction of the wait time.
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Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:20 pm to bhtigerfan
They brag about their healthcare but when shite hits the fan, the rich come to America for their healthcare
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:24 pm to bhtigerfan
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Great job Canada. Can you imagine waiting 13 months to get an MRI for a possible brain tumor? Insanity.
No surprise I ran into shite like this when I was in the Army. I had to wait over 6 months to get tested for allergies. The real kicker is Uncle Sam paid for three days of work, two nights in a hotel, three days per diem, milage from Ft Sill to San Antonio on top of the medical cost of the allergy and pulmonary function test.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:25 pm to bhtigerfan
But but Trump's tariffs are the biggest threat ever faced by Canadians 
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:26 pm to bhtigerfan
Flaws in their system doesn't make our system good unfortunately
Posted on 3/24/25 at 3:18 am to UncleFestersLegs
well its 2-3 months here. The healthcare system needs to re-staffed.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 5:05 am to SmackoverHawg
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Unless you have United Healthcare
What is their issue? My employer just dumped Blue Cross to UHC for lower deductibles and lower rates.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 5:44 am to Powerman
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Flaws in their system doesn't make our system good unfortunately
Dunno why you're catching a couple of DVs... I'm glad our system isn't like Canada's, but you're right that our system could use improvement.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 5:54 am to armytiger96
It would have been cheaper for the Army to have sent you to a civilian allergist. Yet it’s the government we’re talking about.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 6:07 am to PsychTiger
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They should elect a new governor.
The more we learn about Canada, the more we need to keep it as a distant neighbor
They are a socialist country that is self-destructing
Need more of that culture in America?
Posted on 3/24/25 at 6:10 am to Auburn1968
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Canada has 10.35 MRI's per million people. America has 37.98 per million people. They've gotten relatively cheap here.
My MRI here in Birmingham was $850 last December for images of my right wrist with no dye. It was $3k before insurance.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 6:55 am to bhtigerfan
"Free" Healthcare is worth everything you pay for it.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 7:41 am to tide06
This is the best articulated statement on Canadian Healthcare I have seen in years; and, our leftists promote this.
The Canadians are financially motivated to kill people, ethics be damned.
The Canadians are financially motivated to kill people, ethics be damned.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 7:42 am to Powerman
Nice try bottom.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 7:51 am to bhtigerfan
Didn't read all. Did she ask for cash price?
Posted on 3/24/25 at 8:02 am to dgnx6
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thought Aca was going to lower healthcare costs?
Just made it more expensive and now your doctor works for a corporation.
The government can’t even put the right mail in the numbered box. Let’s let them run healthcare.
Oh and about those immigrants. You’d have to stop letting them in or crash the system. You can’t put 20 million jobless homeless people on free healthcare plans.
Not arguing for socialized care in here simply asking to explain how the government math in Canada is different from our health insurance math here.
Both are rationing care and trying to keep their costs down to provide services based on revenue received to their risk pool.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 8:51 am to Houag80
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The Canadians are financially motivated to kill people, ethics be damned.
Their leaders are socialist collectivists with no belief in God. Their new PM isn’t really even a Canadian.
A collectivist believes the individual must give way to the government with regard to freedom, prosperity and share of voice.
A socialist believes that it’s better to give less to everyone than to have an unequal allocation of a greater supply of materials.
And an atheist has no belief in the divine spark of man or an underlying Judeo-Christian moral code making it unethical to apply their collectivism or socialist worldview on others even if it means people will die.
Why should they? The group and government is supreme, man just an intelligent beast, life is without purpose and the good of the many must win out over the suffering of the few.
Maybe our Canadian and British cousins don’t realize this until it’s their good that must give to that of others or perhaps they just don’t know any better?
Either way until we solve our own problems we can only feel for those suffering as Christians and humans while learning from their mistakes.
This post was edited on 3/24/25 at 8:53 am
Posted on 3/24/25 at 9:05 am to Tarps99
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Unless you have United Healthcare
What is their issue? My employer just dumped Blue Cross to UHC for lower deductibles and lower rates.
That's how they offer lower prices. They won't pay for services. They've already been exposed for being the worst at automatic claim denial and then they take the longest to review and pay denials on clean claims. They will take forever to approved needed procedures and test. I refuse to deal with them. If I had one hundred percent United Healthcare, I'd need a least double the staff and I'd be broke and out of business.
If you just have routine visits and don't really use it, it'll be fine.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 9:17 am to TS1926
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My MRI here in Birmingham was $850 last December for images of my right wrist with no dye. It was $3k before insurance.
You can usually get a cash price of $400-500 by skipping insurance, but it don't go against your deductible. Insurers set the rate and complicate the billing system to make it all more expensive. They set the premiums and the payouts, then "bitch" about keeping costs down. We need private insurance reform and to bust up their monopoly over healthcare allowing competition between insurers.
Posted on 3/24/25 at 9:18 am to armytiger96
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Ft Sill to San Antonio
Yeah, it doesn't get much more DoD than that.
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