British patients at high risk of colon cancer are waiting as long as 13 weeks for a colonoscopy. Heart patients who could benefit from angioplasty have to settle for “watchful waiting.”
This month, NHS doctors warned that “a record number of patients could lose their lives if waiting times and bed shortages remain as bad as they already are.”
At least in Britain, people are free to buy private insurance, and go outside the government system for care. That’s also true in most European and Scandinavian countries with universal coverage. But not the Sanders plan. It traps you.
I posted on another thread that some Canadian provinces outlaw private health insurance as well. Wealthy Canadians just have their procedures handled here in the US.
>>It traps you.
The present system also traps folks.
Medicare is the only alternative for individuals in job markets where employers, who can’t afford to offer health care benefits, get around the mandate by making all jobs part time.
This in turn traps the medicare recipient in a situation where they are NOT ALLOWED to earn more than whatever the maximum income for medicaid qualification is.
If you have a chronic health issue, you’re locked beneath the deck of the Titanic.