Recently I went to a doctor for a check-up.
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Recently I went to a doctor for a check-up. I don't do that often, so when I do go, there's a bunch of stuff to do.
By the evening *next day* I had EKG, blood test, CT scan, and heart USG all done. This was not an emergency, just a regular check-up.
Don't let anyone ever bullshit you that universal healthcare systems are unworkable or slow.
Icelandic healthcare system is far from perfect, mainly because right-wing parties made a political decision to under-fund it. And yet, it works as above.
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Recently I went to a doctor for a check-up. I don't do that often, so when I do go, there's a bunch of stuff to do.
By the evening *next day* I had EKG, blood test, CT scan, and heart USG all done. This was not an emergency, just a regular check-up.
Don't let anyone ever bullshit you that universal healthcare systems are unworkable or slow.
Icelandic healthcare system is far from perfect, mainly because right-wing parties made a political decision to under-fund it. And yet, it works as above.
Same here in the UK with the NHS, despite strenuous efforts by many parties and governments to sell it off and under-fund it.
When it works, and you make it into the system, it works astoundingly well.
They just need proper funding, and to stop being treated as a 'profit centre'.