This insurance is for private practices. People can opt to purchase it if they want, but everyone has access to health care with no out of pocket expenses. You're quoting a site trying to peddle supplemental insurance ..... of course they are going to make it sound doom and gloom trying to sell you THEIR PRODUCT!
nonsense...
How so?
I didn't even know I was sick until one day I started shitting and vomiting blood, I was in to see the doctor (a specialist) the next day. My intestines had split, blood was getting in and bacteria was getting out into my system, If I would have waited another 24 hours I would have been dead!!! You don't get to see a specialist that fast there! Plain and simple I would have made the appointment, went home and died waiting to see the doctor!
nonsense
If the system is so good, why is there private practice and extra insurance? because their system is also flawed! If the free system works why the hell would people still pay for insurance???
They would not have know my case was an emergency until it was too late! I didn't even know I was that sick, I was even luck here in the US! Lucky my doctor had an opening the next day! I made an appointment with a specialist because of blood in my stool. Call any GI doctor here in the us and see if they call it an emergency or give you an appointment for a few days to over a week out!
"I started shitting and vomiting blood,"
I was wondering the same. Universal healthcare won't do much good if the difficult, expensive procedures are informally rationed by making them un-or underavailable. cn
Curiosity question. If I call the ambulance with a complaint of heart pain, then come to in hospital 3 days later with my chest newly plowed ... what'll my bill be? Uninsured here.
By some, not by all! I didn't think it was an emergency! That is why I called a specialist instead of going to the ER! People shit and vomit blood all the time with out the risk of losing their life in 24 hours or less!
vomiting or shitting blood is enough for your care to be classed as emergency and get immediate treatment
It is not. cn
It would be the health care system that had taught me that it's not a big deal and to just wait to see the doctors. 99% of cases involving vomiting and shitting blood are not life threatening with in 24 hours, and would be treated as such! I asked for the soonest appointment, they were going to schedule me 3 day out! It would not be my ignorance I called the doctor with my first symptoms.
In some provinces the wait times are lengthy for certain procedures. People can opt to buy supplemental insurance and skip the lines. Things are prioritized, though, and nobody is dying waiting for heart surgery.