My ear doctor is requesting an MRI. As is usually the case, I have a private and public option. Naturally, the doctor is sending me to a public hospital - which I detest.
But I'm a rational person so I wanted to call and see what the wait time is like before I go private.
The first thing I hear after I dial? A special message telling patients there's a 15-hour wait to see a doctor in the emergency ward.
Fifteen. Hours.
Welcome to public health.
Mediocrity in all its compassionate glory.
I can but slap my forehead.
But hey. I should just keep quiet, because America.
Anyway.
Wait time for an MRI?
Six months.
Private it is.
Got an appointment inside two weeks. I made the mistake of going for a blood test on the public side wasting 3 hours of my life. A private service takes 30 minutes. Yeah, I have to front $300 but I get most of it back through insurance. Best $90 one can spend if one values such things.
Does this make me a bad person? I mean, I once read someone claim people who go private are killing the public system and are 'greedy' for not thinking of others.
I kid you not.
Apparently, I have to sit in pain for this person all for, I don't even know anymore they're so irrational.
But I'm a rational person so I wanted to call and see what the wait time is like before I go private.
The first thing I hear after I dial? A special message telling patients there's a 15-hour wait to see a doctor in the emergency ward.
Fifteen. Hours.
Welcome to public health.
Mediocrity in all its compassionate glory.
I can but slap my forehead.
But hey. I should just keep quiet, because America.
Anyway.
Wait time for an MRI?
Six months.
Private it is.
Got an appointment inside two weeks. I made the mistake of going for a blood test on the public side wasting 3 hours of my life. A private service takes 30 minutes. Yeah, I have to front $300 but I get most of it back through insurance. Best $90 one can spend if one values such things.
Does this make me a bad person? I mean, I once read someone claim people who go private are killing the public system and are 'greedy' for not thinking of others.
I kid you not.
Apparently, I have to sit in pain for this person all for, I don't even know anymore they're so irrational.
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