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Originally Posted by Irishmen
Great Britain avg wait is 197 days for doctors appt, similar to Canada. Do this call your doctor here in the villages about your health concern and guess where they'll tell you to go because the schedule is booked: the emergency room.
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Very long waits in Austria where income tax is fifty percent.
Friend in Netherlands was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to wait three months for surgery. Meanwhile the little cancer cells are growing, growing, growing and traveling, traveling, traveling.
Socialized medicine is not what we are used to. But I guess we will have to get used to it.
My husband worked long hours and stayed with a company through very difficult bosses so that we could have the excellent health benefits that Helene's life depended on. Everyone makes sacrifices to protect their loved ones. At least everyone used to. Now fathers don't even marry mothers and there are multiple parents who do not look out for the lives of many children brought into the world.
It is no shame to be poor, and many cannot help themselves out of it. But some can. Many of our immigrant parents and grandparents did. Those of us who can afford to care for those who cannot care for themselves have an ethical responsibility to share their wealth. However the welfare system is so abused that it is a mockery and an enabling agent for many who use illegal drugs to live comfortably and pay for their habit with welfare funds.
Now perhaps this thread will be closed.