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Just a reminder that the european and canadian healthcare systems have abysmal wait times, to the point that people can often expiernce permanent life injuries or even death due to the extreme wait times to be treated. While emergencies are usually treated quickly most things that cause long term injury aren't emergencies.
and the worst wait times, often resulting in harm
% of people waiting more than 2 months for a specialist.
Germany 2x vs USA, new zealand 4x, sweden 3x, australia, 3x, France 3x, canada 5x.. all % of people waiting more than 2 months for a specialist
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-care-wait-times-by-country
@freemo I'm not really sure how to interpret that graph you've linked in your post and the claims you made. Germany 2x vs USA, but the graph doesn't seem to reflect that? Or am I misreading something here?
Also, are there any data about how many people in % go to a doc compared to other countries? If, for example, a country has 50% of its people going to specialists, that'd cause longer waiting times than if only 1% of the people go to a specialist?
The site you linked seems wonky to me, btw. Nothing happens when I hover over a tile in its map.
@trinsec The claims i made are from the link not the graph.. the graph uses a different metric from a different source showing a similar but different pattern (with the graph showing usa and germany as the best performers)
@freemo How do you even interpret that site's data? It seems oddly incomplete to me in presentation.
For example the section 'Health Care Wait Times by Country 2021' seems to be missing a few crucial columns I have the idea. And I wonder why Singapore is left out in the middle section, and I also wonder if whoever made this page hated their readers so much that a lot of stuff is unformatted and hard to read.
@trinsec I spent some time looking for public data on it.. while I have plenty of private data to pull from public seems lacking. I literally provided the only 2 public sources I could find that compares USA to europe. If you have better sources that show specialist and elective wait times please feel free to share.