Partially sighted, suicidal Brit says she waited 18 months for doctor's appointment

Shit, is the British healthcare system really so bad? 18 months!

DAMN! That is Somalia tier.

>universal healthcare

>Trying to get healthcare through the NHS

She should've seen it coming

>Partially sighted

Come on, she is just a girl, she needs care!

I'm currently four months into a wait for an essential surgery. The doctors and nurses are good (apart from the African nurses) but the administration is awful

Seems like the doctors turned a blind eye to it.

I got an appointment for the same day this morning.

kek

Don't blindsight me. That's like rubbing salt in my eyes.

>four months into a wait for an essential surgery
As long as you are an EU national, you could just fly to Germany and have that surgery here within weeks. You know that, right?

im in canada and sometimes i worry the doctors will kill me

Suicidal

Waits 18 months

Waiting is keeping her alive

You're welcome

No carlos? Come on user

>german humor

I waited NINE FUCKING MONTHS to have kidney stones removed. I tried to commit suicide during that time, it was so painful. A year later when I caught my hand in a lathe, I had to lie and say it was my writing hand, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten the surgery immediately. I would have been waiting """"up to a week"""" which is what they said about the kidney stones.

Bonus points: saw the emergency ward turning away foreigners who didn't pay $800 upfront

Public healthcare. Don't believe a thing about it.

What's Carlos? Centipede here

damn if u suicidal just hang urself or something, takes like 10 minutes with the prep work, easy peasy

Hes a BASED Latino

I used a message board related to a neurological condition that a family member has for several years prior to the ACA. Most of the British users complained incessantly about the NHS, wait times and a slew of other things. Once Republicans in the US started using the NHS as an example not to follow, Dems started getting every Britfag they could dig up to praise the NHS, including Stephen Hawking. At that point, the Brit uses of the message board started doing the same. It seems the Brits only like the NHS when anybody outside Britain insults it.

You can get to see a GP pretty quickly, but you only get 10 mins to explain your situation and if your medical problem isn't visible the doctor doesn't have to do anything. If your situation is more specific or you need surgery it will take months.

They get paid if they help you or not so there is no incentive to do a good job because socialism.

I am not even German. But whatever rocks your boat.

Bu- But it was Free.
My dad also had to wait 6 months for a operation on his back which made him unable to work.
Was that wait worth 30 years of paying high taxes and doing overtime?

you only believe in healthcare until you really get ill (when you really can't work anymore)

an old, ugly, angry-looking female diagnosed that i'm completely healthy, could work 8 hours a day. and i couldn't even appeal, because government diagnoses are final.
i was in a clinic before, she didn't even read the papers, so i told her that i have chronical fatigue and all she did was testing my muscles. then she told me i'm looking like i never worked a day in my life and that i'm simulating it. (sure, it's not like i was 13 years in school, why would i suddenly simulate it?)
bitch was extremely biased against me, she looked like she envied me.

7 years later and i have my own online business now. i had luck everything worked out without killing myself.

Took me about 2 years to get a whole in the back of my eye fixed. Optometrists wait times are absolute shit

not crying though. becoming self-reliant is far better than being government dependend.
when government pays for your stuff, you are literaly their slave and have to do EVERYTHING they want you to do or they will boycott you.

this. lrn2save or die. it's a basic law of nature

I'd fuck that

It'd be easy to save if we didn't have to pay up to 45% taxes in the UK. unless you do some dogey dave stuff.
TAX IS THEFT

exactly. i'm sure the statistics say that a very low percentage of the population use up the largest amount of healthcare dollarydoos. probably the same for any social service.

wtf i hate socialism now.

surprisingly that makes sense, burger.

And people say the NHS doesn't work.

18 months of being suicidal and she's still alive to bitch about it.
women REALLY are shit at getting things done.

snowflakes came up with the ultimate way to beg for attentions: being suicidal

meaning "i'm too much of a pussy to a hero but i want you guys to take me seriously as if i had the guts, becaure i really feel like ending my life, but i'm not going to."

Isn't FREE healthcare great?

>Waiting is keeping her alive
clearly she's just not suicidal

As a psyche RN I can tell you that in the US wait times to get in a psyche ward in the US are atrocious and insurance companies basically force us to discharge patients well before they are ready to be discharged, but it's not nearly as bad as waiting 18 months to get admitted.

Theres far too much bureaucracy in government ran anything. The founding fathers had it right. Socialists got it wrong.

(((free))) healthcare.

free healthcare is when you can choose the doctors you pay for.

Coming to a California near you.

there's no such thing as "being suicidal", you either kill yourself or you don't.

it's like saying you're "being bulimic" because you feel like eating a shitload of food while you eat like a functional human being. they are trying their best to make people believe their """depression""" is real, and what's more scary to family and friends than a suicidal threat? don't be blind.

still better than your privatized bullshit.

free healthcare is when everyone pays with tax so it doesn't cost too much on the single individual. in italy healthcare is tax payed, we pay an entrance ticket (30 euro or so) to get whatever medical care we need. in pubblic hospitals ofc.

also why am i explaining this to an european?

>free healthcare is when everyone pays with tax so it doesn't cost too much on the single individual

it's not free, it's only free for you. anybody else has to pay for it, so it basically robs freedom of choice from other to give you costless healthcare.
you are basically profiting from a crime.

but i'm trying to hard. people keep living in a bubble ignoring reality.

I've been telling Libfags here in the US to quit cheering for untouchable deep state bureaucrats for this reason.
>Libfag submits a Medicare claim one day and the minority CMS clerk who hates whitey rejects your claim no matter how liberal you've been & how "woke" you are.
>Libfag goes to start his/her Social Security one day and a guy who hated you in high school works at SSA wipes out your entire earnings records with a keystroke. Unless you saved most of your tax return you can't have it restored.
>The grandaddy you're oh so proud of because he helped liberate a concentration camp in WW2 is being neglected & abused by VA nurses aides who moonlight as Black Panthers on the weekend? Cry more. Not shit you can do about it.
Putting more and more power in the hands of asshole bureaucrats isn't a fucking game. Remember all those assholes who clearly fucked over citizens at the IRS? Not one pink slip was issued nor will they ever be.

what part of "everyone pays for it" you failed to understand? it's in your taxes, costs the same to everyone, from a poorfag to a rich son of a bitch, they only pay the entrance fee

sure they pay a different ammount of taxes, because it's proportional to their income, but that's unrelated.

>you either kill yourself or you don't.
that's what I was jokingly trying to imply.

though I think some people really are constantly occupied with the thought of ending it all. it so easy, yet so hard.

taxes, costs the same to everyone

19% of 1000/month = 190€
19% of 10.000/month = 1900€

but everyone pays the same, right?

the only thing i can agree on is that their lack of initiative (due to depression) is what's keeping them alive. most anti-depressant meds have the warning to keep an eye on the one who takes them because their increased willpower might lead to suicide

which is ironic when you think about it.

>walked down the road yesterday
>walked into GPs office
>had an appointment immediately despite only registering that day

She's lying or she didn't try hard enough.

>Sudden extreme stomach pain
>Brush it off and go to sleep
>Next day almost faint from pain taking morning piss
>Go to work, but decide to order doctor appointment because pain
>Waiting lounge filled with future isis soldiers and thai order brides
>chat with old lady for 2 hours before finally getting in
>Doctor 100% sure its my appendix about to burst
>Have to go to other hospital 1hour away
>Ask for transport because pain
>NO
>Drive to other hospital in my own car in 35 min because i could die any second anyway
>Check in, instantly made ready for operation
>Suddenly all queues are gone since im about to RIP
>Wake up with no appendix, still alive
>ask for transport because crippled
>NO
>Drive home still in morphine hazed head


Nurses literally threw me out as soon as possible without giving me any information on what to eat, when to change bandages etc, had to google everything.

Not sure which is worse. Waiting and knowing you won't be bankrupted or getting hospital care johnny on the spot and then getting a bill for $600k.

I guess it's the old, which is worth more to you? Time or money...

>Bonus points: saw the emergency ward turning away foreigners who didn't pay $800 upfront

That's a good thing though surely? Foreigners shouldn't be getting free healthcare off the Aussie taxpayer.

>>ask for transport because crippled
>>NO


I would cause such a big fucking scene and literally shit on their fucking floors. I'm convinced people that get shat on like this are just fucking pussies. I would call the fucking police before DRIVING MYSELF HOME AFTER A MAJOR OPERATION.

>which is ironic when you think about it
ha yeah. which is why mental illness needs to be treated with more than ((("happy" chemicals)))

Maybe Norwegians just don't like transports?

>GPs office
How is a GP a specialist?

This is probably true. It is fucking dire

Retard Swede, where's Carlos?

They literally told me the alternative was a public bus, and i told them to fuck off with that bullshit, i'd rather drive myself home than trying to find a god damn bus in a town i rarely visit.

Isn't it only rational to put suicidal people at the bottom of the queue? I mean, the problem sorts itself out.

like i said, it's unrelated, taxation are proportionate to your income and that happens whether healthcare is "free" or private.

let's look at the private healthcare, a heart transplant costs 1.2 mil dollars, you are either really rich and can afford a good insurance or you die, simple as that. not to mention private healthcare means pharmaceutical can raise the price of their meds because they feel like it
>shkreli made epipens cost +700 bucks

true, but in my opinion, there are a lot of "depressed" teens out there, i've stopped caring at people claiming they are depressed unless they can't get out their bed in the morning

seems like everyone nowadays is depressed, have severe ocd, have fear of holes (i forgot the name of that bullshit, but everyone has it) and so on i don't believe 90% of it. most """depressed""" people don't even seek for help, they let their """depression""" define them, it's something that makes them unique as if it was a synonimous of introvert or some bullshit.

She was waiting to see a psychiatrist specializing on suicidal people.

>destroy a service by starving it of needed resources
>claim that government can't do anything right
>deny that they were the government at the time
Is there any reason not to genocide liberals AND conservatives?

>seems like everyone nowadays is depressed
yup. they think temporary sadness is depression

>most """depressed""" people don't even seek for help
they either can't or won't. they see no cure or outs. those are the truly depressed, and usually either kill themselves or lead very quiet lives. the others are attention whores or emo faggots or whatever you wanna call them. they use mental illnesses as fashion "accessories"

Or you could, you know, call a friend or family member to pick you up.

So much for "do no harm".

so you're a filthy paki then

There are only Pakis in the UK. I am a Celtic-Germanic superman.

>one eye on the street

No in Somali you get faster help, you just show up at the local bonesman with a goat and you get help.

>Universal memecare

Its fine until you decide to be retarded as a country and import millions of freeloading immigrants.

I got the vibe she is a university student who 'identifies' as disabled

Immigrants have literally fucking nothing to do with how shit our system is. We have what is effectively a Union for doctors in Australia, and they refuse to allow more GP's and specialists to be trained. More GP's and Doctors would hinder their wage growth, see. So since this fucking Union cartel has Labor by the balls and the Libs are too busy sucking corporate cock to care, we have a massive shortage of properly trained GP's and specialists.
Currently throughout most of Australia, the waiting list to see a Specialist is well over a year.

P.s. if you are suicidal never take the medication-jew, I went from a math student getting straight 90's to 60's - shit raped my creativity. Stopped taking it after that period of exams and straight back to 90's. It's bullshit mayn.

>Not just taking a bunch of Speed or Adderal

Probably would have been cheaper and definitely more effective. Plus it's a great study aid.

this is true I actually tried to top myself and I'd went out of my way to hide it for years - these people are full of shit

Supply is too low relative to demand thanks to socialism. Service is thus rationed. Ain't an admin problem.

PAY!

Nah she's an attention whore who had nothing of value to add to the debate so she resorted to lies and emotion to make her point.

Fuck her.

If she's going to be blind to the fact that the NHS isn't sustainable less there be compromise, then fuck her.

Wtf is a centipede? God sounds like a stupid name.

>suicidal
>still alive after 18 months
>not just a regular attention whoring female

> waited 18 months for a doctor to see her

> somehow this is the insurance companies fault

I'v waited more than a year for a doctors appointment before... guess what?

The doctor was booked solid for a year.

BTW this was one private healthcare.

There is nothing wrong with universal healthcare, there simply isn't enough doctors of specialties to see everyone all the time.

If you are waiting a year to see a doctors, stop being a lazy fat fuck and call them a couple times a week to see if someone canceled, or find another doctor.

mental health isnt considered important and shes lucky she only waited 18 months

i waited 3 years, only got seen now because i attempted suicide twice.

Bullshit, the fuckers go to the doctor for the smallest of things and its all paid for by us. They bring old fashioned diseases that were gone from this country. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if they brought a new black death.

i certainly wouldn't say it on national television like some psychocuck

Private healthcare is expensive because supply of doctors is held low by the medical associations and patents on drugs and equipment.

I'd vote for any party that would charge people who end up in hospital for getting too pissed on a night out desu - why are parties so scared of this I am sure it is a net vote winner and would actually save a good hundred million?

I guess she was too shortsighted

^ this

There is not an insurance issue, it's a lack of mental health doctors.

If you have anxiety issues and need a downer to keep you more calm, the wait to see one of these doctors can easily be 8 months or more.

dude shes half blind, did you not see her eyes its fucking obvious.

And she still doesn't realise that the NHS is shit?

all i saw was some crying bitch

>Mental health

They don't deserve any tax payer funded sook sessions tbqh.

I'm glad we started kicking these "lel I'm so sad" parasites off the welfare roles.

Turns out their depression was cured quite quickly by having to get a fucking job with which to buy their weed and booze with.

yep. and also i feel bad for her because the story she told about her appointment is the similar to my experiences.

the tories are latching onto the mental health issue now in an attempt to get more voters, none of the major parties give a shit about mental health desu.

>Be Australian
>lel Universal health care
>Need root canal
>That'll be 5000 dollars please
>What about dat durrrr universal health care?
>Yeah, you're white, so....
>FUG U

I need to go get a crown. 800 muddafucking bucks. Had to wait 6 months for my insurance to kick in.

I wish I lived in europe where everything is free.

wtf I got that done privately in london for £120 as all the NHS dentists were (((oversubscribed)))

>120 pounds

pls tell me you're joking.

Fuck I hate Australia.

But then again I hated England more.

Cost me like 3 grand for the actual root canal, another 2 for the crown.

I ran out and got insurance because there was another tooth that needed it, and basically had to sit for 6 months with what felt like a needle being jammed into my gums over and over until my premiums kicked in.

Getting government treatment for stuff like that here is next to impossible unless you're basically a protected minority on the dole, and even then they get hit and miss work done.

Wew just don't get sick, faggots. Stop having shit genes

Here we just go to the Korean dentists who charge like 1/3rd the normal rate and do better work.

This is how public healthcare works in the UK, its always been shitty, and yet people think the solution is more public healthcare.
Wish members of our populace would pick up a bloody economics textbook.