Propaganda has some people convinced that universal healthcare means having to wait for weeks for a medical appointment, and also that even that (made up) problem is worse than not being able to afford to go to the doctor at all
Many are convinced you can’t have freedom and an affordable doctor at the same time.
kinsnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Meanwhile, you have to wait for weeks for an appointment under the current system anyway.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
The real propaganda is getting those people to someone forget that’s already how it fucking works in the US
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
dont you months or years, even in places with “low cost or free” it isnt that long. in the states some healthcare providers have weeks or months out for an appointment.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Where I am in Canada we do have problems with wait times, and many people can’t find a family doctor. But it wasn’t always like this. Successive Conservative provincial governments have cut healthcare funding again and again, trying to force people into private for-profit healthcare. It’s the same story in the UK: public healthcare has been undermined by every government since Thatcher’s in the 1980s, and the NHS is not what it was.
Both are still better than the US system though, even after all the cuts. I have to wait about 2 weeks to see my doctor unless it’s an emergency. Emergencies can mean an hours-long wait at the hospital. I was recently admitted after an emergency and needed surgery and follow-up examinations. I’ve had an MRI, EKG, ECG, and a whole bunch of other tests with specialists, and more surgery. The care has been very thorough and the doctors excellent, and I have not had to worry once about costs.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Don’t let anyone ever try to tell you that we don’t have massive wait time issues in the US. We do.
Kage520@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think the freedom part is accurate, but the propaganda certainly is. The news tells them what to think and they don’t try further. They are convinced the United States has the best healthcare in the world, so nice, it cannot be put into a more affordable model without becoming unusably bad. They believe the Magic Market has created the absolute best and cheapest option out there, and the government can only mess that up. Individually, to those who use it, you almost always get complaints as we find ways to make it MORE inaccessible and MORE expensive (eg, concierge doctors), but even those people believe this is the best and cheapest way to do it. They themselves just got unlucky for their personal and not unique situation. The news told them so.