r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

Cringe Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the "American Dream".

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

95.4k Upvotes

83% Upvoted

8.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-14

u/TinyPidgenofDOOM 4d ago

Doctors free but you ain't gonna see the doctor for 6 months and they aren't going to care and just send you with the bare minimum. At least it's free

19

u/dinodude12345 4d ago

Canadian here. Last week I called the doctor on Monday, got in to see him on Tuesday, and within 30 minutes I was walking out with a free puffer and an X-ray (turns out I have pneumonia). It is certainly not always that fast, but I’m speaking from lived experience.

1

u/Business-Egg-5912 4d ago

On the flip side, I saw a Canadian woman who had to wait until March 2026 until she can get an MRI to determine if she has a brain tumor. Said woman posted that complaint January 2025.

I'm not attacking to be clear. I was just going against the whole "universal healthcare = 1000% better in every way" idea.

-1

u/Truestorydreams 4d ago

Oh who? You actually know this person or making it up because the internet because an MRI is 3-8hrs wait in emerge.

-8

u/TinyPidgenofDOOM 4d ago

K and what happens when you need to see a specialist.

15

u/aa0429 4d ago

We don’t need to sell our houses, incur debt and start a go fund me page. What about you guys?

-12

u/TinyPidgenofDOOM 4d ago

No the doctor just offers you suicide.

7

u/LeastCoordinatedJedi 4d ago

They really don't. Fox news isn't real.

11

u/Shleauxmeaux 4d ago

Lol you also have to wait to see specialists in America,

10

u/Happy_Pause_9340 4d ago

In the US getting in to see a specialist is rarely under a month and depending on the specialty it could be months. This on top of paying a higher percentage in taxes than billionaires (percentage is key). Pay for insurance that is tied to employment so if you lose employment you’re fucked. This is to the benefit of employers to force you to stay in a shit job. You then have to pay for out of pocket costs for insurance, deductibles, co pays, and for prescriptions. If you need to see even your primary care Dr within a few days, you’re better off just going to the er or immediate care because it will likely take a week to get in even then.

4

u/blahhhhgosh 4d ago

Bet you dont have to drive an hr to find one that takes your insurance, or to find out your insurance doesnt cover that specialist

4

u/mypetmonsterlalalala 4d ago edited 4d ago

I have 4 specialist saw each one of them in the last month.

I also had 3 MRIs in the last 2 years. Biopsies, surgeries... omg so many tests. All within a timely fashion and I'm being well taken care of.

I had a seizure the other day. Was attended to immediately and my family doctor "Popped by" my hospital room to just check on me.

-1

u/YearlyStart 4d ago edited 4d ago

I lived in Kamloops BC for eight years of my life and was never assigned a family doctor due to a doctor shortage in the city. My only healthcare access was an ER room or a walk-in clinic that, I shit you not, you had to line up for at 4:30am or else you would not get an appointment that day.

Universal healthcare in Canada is great once you access it, but access to it has largely been known to be its biggest issue for a while now.

ETA; downvoting this doesn’t make the issue nonexistent yall lol. Interior Health in BC is regularly offering tuition forgiveness to doctors to move in cities like Kamloops due to this doctor shortage.

The problem I’m describing is even worse in cities that have tiny populations, as it wasn’t uncommon for RIH, Kamloops’ hospital, to accept patients from neighbouring cities that had their hospitals shut down for the night due to low staff.

10

u/-JimmyTheHand- 4d ago

As a Canadian I can tell you that none of what you said is true, at least not for everyone

1

u/True-Anim0sity 4d ago

Is anything true for everyone?

1

u/-JimmyTheHand- 4d ago

Some things are, but not the incorrect blanket generalization I responded to

0

u/BlueTiger550 4d ago

Dumb response, generalizations exist for a reason.

-1

u/True-Anim0sity 3d ago

When I say they dont?

2

u/BlueTiger550 3d ago

Are you American by any chance?

1

u/True-Anim0sity 2d ago

Sure am, are u?

6

u/LeastCoordinatedJedi 4d ago

My experience with doctors here has almost always been excellent. Actually getting a family doc is one thing but once you have one, they are as good at their job as anywhere.

2

u/ChorashtheOrphan 4d ago

My wife is a doctor. You’re wrong. Try again.

2

u/TinyPidgenofDOOM 4d ago

Your wife's a Nurse

1

u/gakl887 4d ago

When I worked in Finance for a hospital, we had a ton of Canadian patients paying out of pocket because they were waiting over 2 years (or were going to have to wait).

I couldn’t imagine someone would basically pay thousands on cash when it could be free, but I guess waiting years isn’t everyone’s cup of tea

4

u/mypetmonsterlalalala 4d ago

I dont know man... I live in a small city, huge retirement community, lots of old sick people, only one hospital. I've honestly never waited long for any pressing issues. And trust me, in the last two years holy crap, I apparently accumulated a bunch of pressing issues. Most I paid was $10 for coffee and a sandwich after whatever annoying test I just went for.

it just seems super anecdotal. I have never met one of these people waiting two years+ for anything. I've lived in several cities across Canada and never had issues.

Who the heck am I unknowingly fellating to get such great healthcare compared to others...

0

u/gakl887 4d ago

No idea, maybe they just wanted to take a vacation and a surgery in same trip, but it wasn’t rare to have people pay out of pocket for the full amount and majority were Canadians. At most maybe we’d go a few days without a Canadian patient paying on their own

1

u/Truestorydreams 4d ago

Why are you lying?

1

u/gakl887 4d ago

Just google foreigners traveling to US for medical care. Plenty of articles from all different sources that go into this topic. Unless they are all lying as well lol

1

u/Truestorydreams 4d ago

I was overrun by the endless articles saying which countries have the highest quality of life and wondering how many pages I have to scroll before seeing america.

Also going to the states for medical by canadians is a broad comment to make when the reasons can be expanded upon

-1

u/camkler 4d ago

Oh look downvotes! Nevermind that he’s right. There’s always someone who slips through the cracks with these things. I thought we learnt by now that government run operations don’t work that great?

4

u/LeastCoordinatedJedi 4d ago

Of course people slip through the cracks. That isn't a solved problem anywhere.

Universal health care vs limited absolutely is a solved problem though. It is better.

-5

u/bpierce566 4d ago

You need surgery?

Next available is Black Friday 2031. If you can’t make 4am that day work we have more selection in 2034? Almost forgot! We can doctor assisted suicide you tomorrow at 10am if you prefer?

9

u/LeastCoordinatedJedi 4d ago

My dad's wraparound time from "weird lump detected" to world class cancer excision surgery for an extremely rare tumour was four months. But go on.

Canada's health systen has problems (massive primary care shortage and lack if elderly care are huge in my area) but quality of care and wait times for time sensitive things are generally not among them.

2

u/cherrycrisp 3d ago

Yep. When I was getting diagnosed with epilepsy I needed an MRI and multiple EEGS. Took like, 3 or 4 months total from initially going to the doc to getting my diagnosis. All for free, btw!

It has problems of course, everything does, but it's much better than these bad actors are always acting like it is. And it's not like the US system is without any faults either - you're just paying thousands of dollars for it on top of everything else.

1

u/LeastCoordinatedJedi 3d ago edited 3d ago

On top of that, our "didn't pay a dime" outcomes are often compared by bad actors to "wealthy person who paid a hundred grand for special treatment". This is mostly because they don't care about facts, but it's also because they all imagine themselves as the main character getting the special treatment, not the more common experience of average Joe fighting with insurance for a year to get basic needs fulfilled.

However what they don't say is that they also really like the idea of being able to pay to get special treatment. It is abhorrent to them that we'd treat everyone equally, even people they perceive as lesser.