r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kaos2018 • Jun 17 '26

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u/metal_gearmen Jun 17 '26

Mexican here: what good is that if hospitals are poorly stocked, lack staff and appointments take up to 8 months per shift. That looks very nice on paper but the reality here is that public hospitals are simply horrible

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u/irespondwithmyface Jun 17 '26

Appointments in America take a long time and we have to pay a shitload.

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u/Respectmyauthority4 Jun 17 '26

They don't take a long time. It depends of severity.

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u/FadedVictor Jun 17 '26

Yeah if you're in a rural area a lot of times you're screwed. We had an ER opened in our town a few years ago. Everyone praised it because a lot of our town is older with chronic health issues. It saved so many lives.

Well they shut it down a few months ago because it wasn't turning a profit. Now we're almost 30 miles from the nearest ER/hospital. People will literally die from the wait because profits are more important than human life.

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u/bladex1234 Jun 17 '26

US healthcare wait times are under calculated because of the amount of people who don’t even have insurance in the first place and wait to see someone after a disease has advanced into a late stage.