• Nagairius@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I feel like it’s a no win situation.

    Here in Canada, my coworker has needed back surgery since last year in September. He just got into a specialist for a consultation last week to get surgery scheduled. He’s been living for almost an entire year on light duty at work with back pain.

    I feel over the past 10 years our Government has mismanaged their financials and our healthcare and education systems have taken the beating for it. Public services are only as good as the people who are trusted to safeguard them.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      That’s still better, cause if I needed back surgery I’d just suck it up because I know (see OP photo) is waiting for me if I do go

      Unless I have money for good insurance.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Sounds like your coworker is getting healthcare.

      In America he’d just suffer for the rest of his life and then off himself when he was too old to handle the pain and still work.

    • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      Pretty much, UK here and the NHS is also such a mismanaged joke at this point that private health insurance is looking a lot better for me. I’ve had a friend of mine whose dad succumbed to cancer because the NHS didn’t get to him soon enough before it went terminal and then they proceeded to blame him for not coming sooner. This was before the COVID pandemic but these stories only increased afterwards.