r/FluentInFinance • u/The-Lucky-Investor • 13d 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/Cadet_Stimpy 13d ago

Congrats. I’ve lived in Florida, Texas, and now Virginia and the only time I’ve had a same day appointment with a PCM is if I got lucky and someone canceled last minute. Both my mother and grandmother still live in Florida and tell me it also takes them months just to be seen.

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u/AggravatingDisk7237 13d ago

So weird. I have family in Florida who don’t have that issue. Specialists are incredibly hard to see but not just general urgent care etc.

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u/Cadet_Stimpy 13d ago

I’m not talking about urgent care. My grandmother isn’t going to be seen at urgent care for her hearing, her general checkups, knee replacement consultations, etc. Now if she falls and breaks her hip, then yes she can go to the ER. But healthcare isn’t just for when you fall and break something.

I’m figuring that everyone bringing up urgent care in these responses only goes to the doctor when it’s an emergency? I had a cousin who did that and he died of cancer because they found it too late. That’s why checkups are so important.

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u/Bucket_of_Spaghetti 13d ago

But everything you just described for your grandmother is preventive care (check ups, hearing, consultations) - those things aren’t urgent and are intended to be scheduled in advance. An annual physical is annual - just schedule it a year out each time you see the doc for your current physical. A knee consult can be scheduled months out unless it’s causing chronic pain, in which case go to urgent care for pain management and schedule your consult in the meantime

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u/Cadet_Stimpy 13d ago

No one said anything about urgent or emergency. The original comment I responded to insinuated they had to wait weeks to see a GP in Europe. I’m saying I’ve had to wait months to see PCMs (same as GPs), as well as specialists, in the United States.

Can you all decide if waiting months to see a PCM is normal or not? Because apparently it’s not in countries with socialized healthcare, but so many of you want to tell me it’s normal in the US.