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@ianbremmer

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Why is anyone worried about the wait time for free medical care in the UK for someone from the Ukraine?

Sounds like Kiev isn't much of a war zone if she flew back there for treatment

Meh, only few rockets here and there every week. Not that much.

when there are more GPs per head of population than there were in 2019? Are they all working part-time?

Welcome to free healthcare

Why doesn't it say exactly how long the wait was? I've had to wait a year to see a gp because there were no open appointments.

It's 13 years of mismanaged free healthcare by a government that has actively tried to dismantle the good parts of free healthcare. Patient satisfaction was at an all time high under last Labour government. Free healthcare isn't the problem, Conservatives are.

>s 13 years of mismanaged free healthcare by a government that has actively tried to dismantle the good parts of free healthcare.

You are not going to pretend that the NHS was becoming unaffordable as population went down?

Seriously, a year for a GP? How can that even be a thing? What did you say when you finally got there? Hi doctor, I was dealing with a cough a year ago but I'm better now?

I can only get appointments for my GP on the same day as making the appointment. But I'm not from the UK.

Basically. I'm also not from the UK, I'm from Philly but I have medicaid and the doctors hate my insurance because they often underpay or forget to pay. Specialists can take even longer. I'm currently waiting to get surgery done but the OR the doctor uses has no open slots for the foreseeable time and has to wait until the next schedule comes out.

Ah yes, the US. I can't say I'm well informed, but I've heard things about your healthcare.

I'm from Belgium and it's pretty decent here. Cheap, mandatory health insurance, good accessibility to doctors, and well equipped, modern hospitals everywhere. Plenty to complain about if you want, but compared to a ton of other places in the world, I feel extremely lucky to be born here.

Usually, you can get an appointment with your GP in a matter of days, or the same day. In case of my own GP, he introduced a rather annoying system where you can only make an appointment for that day, from 7 in the morning. That mean I have to be ready with the app or behind my PC at that time, because all the appointment slots are filled up in a matter of minutes. No idea why he did that, but compared to having to wait weeks or months, it's fine.

Specialists do take longer here as well, on average, but there is usually something to be done if the matter is a little urgent. Like, if my GP thinks I should really see a specialist soon, he might make a call to the specialist himself to get me squeezed in.

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What?