The left loves to tell everyone how the US needs to have “free” healthcare, you know, like they do in Canada. Let me illustrate why that’s bull hockey.
I was at work, and a man brought his 17 year old son in, after the son fell off of his dirt bike a week before, injuring his shoulder. X-ray showed no broken bones. The dad asked if we could see any tendon or muscle damage, and we informed him that an x-ray can’t see that, he would need more testing. At this point, it is no longer in the scope of emergency care. The doctor and I advised them they would need to go to the child’s doctor’s office to get an order for an MRI, because only an MRI could see with that kind of detail.
The dad then asked if we could write the order for the MRI. The doctor explained that ER doctors can’t write an order like that, because the doctor writing an order for tests has to be the same doctor who treats the patient’s conditions exposed by that test. The man explained that the child’s doctor wanted him to have an MRI. So we asked him why he doesn’t get his own doctor to write the order. Even if insurance won’t pay for it, it’s only about $200.
We are from Canada and are returning home in the next couple of days. I can’t believe you won’t just give me an order. This is ridiculous, not only do we have to pay almost $300 for this ER visit, you can’t even write us the order to get the MRI. Now you want us to pay for a local doctor and pay $200 for an MRI? The health care system here in the US is so broken.
We asked, “If you can get it done for free back home, then why don’t you get it done when you get there?” His reply was gold:
We specifically came here to the US get an MRI because there is a year long wait for one back home. We tried to get one at the place down the street, but the MRI place said we need a doctor’s order. All I need is an order from a US doctor so we can get one while we are here in the states.
That’s the state of Canadian healthcare. It’s free, but you can’t have any. Rather than wait, this dad bundles his kid up, flies to the US, then trashes our medical care because it won’t do it now, and won’t do it for free.
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