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Read more »I've lived in Canada and the US, and readily accessed health care in both countries. My primary care in Canada was excellent, and referrals were accomplished in a timely manner. Everything was paid for but prescriptions, and I was able to pursue issues I might not have been able to in the US. At the same time, Toronto was sending women with breast cancer to Buffalo, NY for treatment, and "elective" surgeries can take as long as a year to get scheduled. Many small communities have little by way of medical care.

Read more »From our very first experience with the County funded Mental Hospital, it was clear that uninsured mentally ill patients receive poorer quality care than those with insurance, or better yet, those who may have private funding. Since our son is an adult, he is ineligible to be included on our medical insurance, he was unable to work so he had no insurance from a job, and we are a family with two working parents, and still just making ends meet. Paying for his care would have bankrupted us in about a week.

Read more »ok- first of all- I was covered when I worked for Horsham and that was ok- money came out of my paycheck but my copays were nice and low. But when I quit Horsham and began waitressing, I had to go on Cobra- which sucked!

I scraped together the money to send my son the best specialists, but now we can’t afford the expensive treatment they prescribed.

Read more »My great aunt is getting very old and since she never married or had children, she has few people to care for her. My mother, her niece, does as much as she can, but we live many hours from her.

I’ll never forget when my Uncle Billy cut his head open. It was Thanksgiving, we were all playing football in the backyard. He went out for a pass and ran straight into a tree! When we all stopped laughing, we realized that his head was bleeding. Of course, we rushed him to the hospital. I will never forget how he was made to fill out extensive paperwork while his head was squirting blood all over the place. It was ridiculous! Luckily, he had health insurance, but it seemed so uncivilized to put the money first and health after.

Read more »A recent experience with the healthcare system surely highlighted its challenges! Of course the hope is the symptoms may point to the cure. My elderly Aunt, still bright but wheelchair bound and in fairly constant pain after surgery, is in a nursing home situation. I recently went there for a "care conference" - as well as to visit with her, of course. Or at least the 'of course' was apparent to me, that there was and is a person to be cared for and about; the tone of the conference was all about "management." Things are managed, people give and receive care.

I got a prescription filled and didn’t realize until I had driven all the way home that they had given me a whole bottle of the wrong prescription- a powerful sleeping pill!

I recently took a bad fall and had multiple serious injuries. Since one of them was a spine injury, I was placed in the neurology wing of the hospital. I also had a broken elbow, ribs & pelvis, which were extremely painful, but because so many of the patients in my wing had nerve damage as a result of their injuries, I didn’t have a doctor that paid attention to my pain management needs. I had been assigned other doctors, but they were in other areas of the large and spread-out hospital and there didn’t seem to be good communication among departments.