r/FluentInFinance • u/The-Lucky-Investor • 11d ago

“Medicare for All” would save the U.S $5.1 Trillion over 10 years Discussion/ Debate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/30/easy-pay-something-costs-less-new-study-shows-medicare-all-would-save-us-51-trillion
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u/Pigletpowpow 11d ago

Yeah… had a seizure and was told I needed to get an EEG done, immediately. Called to schedule after the first visit that took 3 weeks to get to after the seizure, to be scheduled out 2 months to be able to get my test done.

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u/PFunk224 10d ago

I was diagnosed with stage 2 cancer in my kidney in January 2018. They told me that the tumor was too large to make an attempt to save the kidney, and that it would need to be removed immediately because I was at extreme risk of the cancer spreading to my lymph nodes and other organs at that point. I was made to wait an entire month for surgery that was considered immediately necessary. During that month of waiting, I had to have two separate emergency procedures to have a 400cc blood clot removed from my bladder, because my kidney was so malfunctioned from the tumor that it was regularly sending blood to my bladder, which would then coagulate and completely block my urethra.

Yeah, Americans are made to wait for medical procedures, too. Even immediately necessary ones.

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u/Pats_Bunny 11d ago edited 11d ago

Which part of the country are you located? I'm in San Diego, and from the day a tumor was found in my colon, I was in treatment a month later. That was after a colonoscopy (to go deeper up my butt than the sigmoidoscopy), CT scan, MRI, PET scan, tumor biopsy, and PICC line "install," plus an appt with an onc and a GI surgeon, a second opinion oncologist appt, and a port-a-cath pre-op consult all being scheduled in that 4 week period.

I have Kaiser, and everything is under the same roof and streamlined, and I'm also in a desirable area for doctors to practice. This is not the case around the country as I have come to find out it is very location and provider dependent on how quickly you can find care.

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u/Pigletpowpow 11d ago

Northern Nevada, Renown. All of it also under the same roof, urgently get stuff done in a couple months is all.

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u/Pats_Bunny 11d ago

That sucks. It's scary to have serious stuff going on and having diagnostics drag out.

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u/Cool1Mach 11d ago

Thats a emergency room issue. They would of done it right away