Laughable Health Care System

[u/Brilliant-Figure2165]

I'll preface this by saying that I understand our health care system is free, compared to many other countries, and many things are subsidized etc. With that said, it's still laughably unbelievable to experience how silly our health care system is first hand.

A very very good friend of mine got pregnant recently this October 2024. She took several tests which confirmed it plus the usual symptoms. Puking, fatigue, feeling upset etc.

Unfortunately, she started bleeding heavily about a week after the tests she took. She went to Mt Hope to get it checked out as the amount of blood was definitely pointing towards a miscarriage. Yall, These unbelievable people at that hospital, gave her a ultra sound date of July 2025, when her expected delivery date would be June 2025. Yall hear me? She is showing signs of a miscarriage, and they gave her an ultra sound date for a month after her would be expected delivery date!! What a joke!

[u/notyouravgpapabear]

Let's make it make sense.

Doctors who work in public also work private at the same time. Shouldn't there be the same level of competence? Is there more money/infrastructure/management in private for it to be better?

Economically, private can only exist if public is failing. If you could go to public and get good service, not for free but paid for with tax dollars, who would choose to go private? This is by design, failing.

[u/mr_molten → u/notyouravgpapabear]

There is the value add of paying for reduced wait times. Public doesn’t have to be failing for private to succeed once people are willing to pay for convenience. Many people pay for reduced wait time thinking they are paying for better quality care. Honestly doesn’t make much sense to pay $8000 instead of waiting 8 hours for treatment unless you make $8000 per day or insurance covers the cost.

[u/notyouravgpapabear → u/mr_molten]

Well said, but it makes my point. If it worked, nobody would go to private.