> If I need major surgery, I know I can get it in a reasonable amount of time
Do you have much experience with this major surgery in a reasonable amount of time, or are you just taking it on faith? Because my experience is the US system has the exact same "government gets to decide if I need to get it or not and the wait time could be in years" and "government making health decisions for you" - only that government is made up of private corpos and isn't even nominally democratically accountable. My experience with the US system is that each step of a process gets booked 2-6 months out, and any kind of major surgery will require many steps of referrals - testing/imaging, follow ups, first line treatments that need to be tried, etc. So time can most certainly add up to years from first could-have-been-diagnosed until actual treatment.
And excuse me for getting personal, but have you been in the hospital with your dad advocating for him? Or at least through the phone? Because my experience doing that for multiple family members has made me see the system's failings in galling detail, to the point that I would never write a comment saying our healthcare system is effective. And FWIW, "sepsis twice" seems like a possible red flag that his care isn't as good as you might think it is
Do you have much experience with this major surgery in a reasonable amount of time, or are you just taking it on faith? Because my experience is the US system has the exact same "government gets to decide if I need to get it or not and the wait time could be in years" and "government making health decisions for you" - only that government is made up of private corpos and isn't even nominally democratically accountable. My experience with the US system is that each step of a process gets booked 2-6 months out, and any kind of major surgery will require many steps of referrals - testing/imaging, follow ups, first line treatments that need to be tried, etc. So time can most certainly add up to years from first could-have-been-diagnosed until actual treatment.
And excuse me for getting personal, but have you been in the hospital with your dad advocating for him? Or at least through the phone? Because my experience doing that for multiple family members has made me see the system's failings in galling detail, to the point that I would never write a comment saying our healthcare system is effective. And FWIW, "sepsis twice" seems like a possible red flag that his care isn't as good as you might think it is