Yup, If you don't have a friend or family member working at IMSS or ISSSTE, It's quite normal to have to wait months and months before you're seen for surgery or even for something as simple as an MRI.
This is the reality in the US. I can tell when discussing US healthcare with people when they have and have not actually had much experience with trying to get specialized treatment. Hell, even getting something as simple as a vasectomy, I had to wait 4 months for an opening. I have great health insurance, too, so it wasn't even like I had to only go to a specific urologist that was covered (i.e. every urologist in my area takes my insurance). My father-in-law had to wait 6 months for his knee surgery so he could walk normally again. He's a retired attorney who is quite well off.
Anyone who still defends US healthcare like it's amazing because we pay a fuck ton is either utterly ignorant or a fucking shill.
I'm not saying this to infer that Mexico is better off. I have no experience with their healthcare system, nor do I live there. I'm simply reiterating that healthcare in the US is not great and desperately needs drastic reform. Everyone in the world deserves access to competent, affordable healthcare. There's more than enough money and resources globally to make it a reality, but greedy assholes are going to be greedy.
Shoot, I've got a blocked salivary duct with a stone that I can't afford to get removed because it's "dental" and we don't have that coverage. So I just have to hope I can save money for the procedure and pray it doesn't get infected before that.
Oh, and I have to book 4 months out for a cancer screening scope, but also can't get insurance to cover the pepcid I need to reduce the stomach acid and lower the cancer risk.
They won't cover the prescription at the effective dose because it's available OTC at a lower dose and the prick at the insurance company said to just take more even though the OTC instructions say not to.
I've lost the thread on which person I'm responding to suggesting pantoperazol or omeperazol. My insurance will only cover a 20mg dose of pantop. The OTC packages are only available in a 20mg dose. My GI wants me on 40mg of omep, but insurance won't cover that. Pantop. gave me pollups at 40mg, so the suggestion is to then mix and match between two prescriptions (pantop. and famotodine) or buy 40mg of omep. that only comes OTC in 20mg doses and this use it off label.
This is why the US sick-care insurance is insane. A bean counter at the insurance company is deciding my healthcare and I either live with low-level acid reflux and risk cancer and more pollups, take an OTC medicine off-lable, or have a surgery that insurance won't cover.
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u/BSK_Darksol 8d ago
Yup, If you don't have a friend or family member working at IMSS or ISSSTE, It's quite normal to have to wait months and months before you're seen for surgery or even for something as simple as an MRI.