I'm fighting an uphill battle with my healthcare. I can't get to a psychiatrist because my insurance company doesn't have any 'in-network providers' in my COUNTY. My medications cost so much that I've had to cut corners in other areas. Forget counseling. Who can take time off work? I'm just getting by.
Tonight I saw a movie that made me angry. I just watched Michael Moore's 'SiCKO'. I feel like my eyes are opened. I saw prescriptions for $12 in England. I saw $.05 inhalers in Cuba. And I saw free health care, low cost childcare and mother's helpers in France. Why can Canada keep their people healthy, and we, 'the richest nation', can't? I want to know. I don't know where to start, but I have things I want to look into, now. Like pay scales in southern Canada.
My recommendation? See SiCKO yourself.
I saw a show once though that showed people in Canada dying waiting for surgeries. Our healthcare system isn't perfect but at least we don't wait months for life saving medical care.
There is no perfect healthcare system anywhere. We have to make the best with what we have.
We could do better though. People who work should have access to state medical insurance if their employers don't provide it or there should be some kind of regulatations about how much of your group plan your employer will pay for.
Every insurance company should have regulatations about how far their members have to drive to see an "in-network" doctor.
We definitely need an overhaul of our current system.