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RadicalPajamasNovember 21, 2024
This is enraging. I can only share my experience from over here in America, but reading that article reminds me vividly of my experience trying to get healthcare here. It's awful, having conditions that feel like they control my entire life, and the excruciatingly long wait times for appointments often leave me feeling hopeless. Pain eats away at you, pain changes you. And the healthcare system is leaving so many of us to suffer in the meantime. There needs to be an overhaul--a drastic change of some kind, because so many of us are being failed.
Fun fact about the UK health system - while this refers to increasing wait times for treatments through the National health service, private healthcare insurance policies aren’t particularly evolved and almost all explicitly exclude all gynaecological issues, even where not fertility-focused. Have bad periods? No private healthcare insurance will cover investigations, just deal with it.
It's becoming increasingly difficult for other countries to insult American healthcare
Stop trying to compete with us 😭
Wow, that's awful.
That’s so messed up and unfair! I wish more women in the UK had the ability to somehow push back against this, at least! If privatized healthcare is allowed to exist as an option in the UK, it shouldn’t be allowed to exclude women’s health. Seems like this would also probably end up being hand-in-hand with limiting the ability for advancements in gynecological healthcare research to happen, right?!
That’s the point - while no one should have to get private health insurance, the fact that all policies will not cover things like PCOS, endometriosis, but would cover testicular torsion… I hate it!