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Chrkeller said:
It isn't a lie, facts are facts. My daughter has a spinal issue and her main doctor scheduled an appointment with a specialist that was a 6 month wait. We were shocked and he shrugged, blatantly told us if we didn't want to wait, go private. We went private because she was at risk at getting worse within 6 months. Frankly I was always told by the US media that long wait times was a myth for public healthcare... sorry but it wasn't a myth. This happened just a couple years ago. Facts are facts. Perhaps it used to be better before the Torys. I have no experience pre-Tory. All I can say is I wasn't impressed with the wait time and how nonchalant the doctor was about waiting 6 months to even see a specialist. Edit The US system, to be fair, is flawed. Heavily flawed. But NHS is heavily flawed as well. |
It is a lie...Come on man. You straight up said that the NHS was terrible for anything more complex than a cold/flu...Do you even realise how utterly ridiculous that sounds? My own various experiences show that is a bold faced lie too. I'm not even denying that the NHS has problems with waiting times in some cases, but that doesn't mean all cases. You're generalising the NHS with a ridiculously broad brush and talking mad shit about it in extreme examples (cold/flu) to talk up private healthcare.
I'm sorry about how you felt treated by your doctor, I'd suggest trying to switch doctors, I'm sorry for your daughter that the wait time is 6 months but you have the ability to go private and millions do not. I'm not taking issue with people complaining about NHS wait times, I'm taking issue with a rich person complaining about NHS wait times who has the ability to hop over to private (private still exists in the UK).
Why is it a bad thing that we have both public healthcare and also a private option? I really largely take issue with the extreme criticism too, it'd be one thing if you just said "NHS is pretty bad for wait times" but you had to say "it's terrible for anything more complex than a cold and flu"
P.S. Sorry about your daughter, if she has what I have then I'd be willing to talk to you about it if it can help, I have Scoliosis, I'd happily speak about it openly if I can help someone else with it.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 07 August 2024
