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Disgraceful HSE waiting lists

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    #32
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,669 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Arcto wrote: »
    Serious reek of self entitlement in here OP.

    The country's broke. You know this. Where do you expect them to magic up money to improve healthcare? I got travel insurance quote from 25plus.ie recently for 30 days it was 37 yoyo for me AND my wife. No one can say they cannot afford that. You took a gamble, you lost. Sorry.


    Clearly you have no idea of what travel insurance covers.

    Basically, if you're hurt overseas, it pays for your immediate treatment there, and then your repatriation home. It does not pay for continuing treatment once you're back at home - that is the responsibility of your home government, or whatever other arrangements your country makes for proving healthcare to its citizens.

    This is what happened for the OP, and it's the same for any other Irish person who is injured while working in Australia / Canada / South America etc - and for any person from those countries who is injured here in Ireland.

    IMHO as an Irish citizen, the OP is absolutely entitled to decent medical treatment, and to income support while s/he is unable to work. I would agree with the observation about the HSE being poorly run.

    And as for the country being broke - rubbish. You only need to look at the spending on the streets for Christmas to know that the recession has well and truly packed its bags.

    OP - is there any chance that your family can help with cash to get a speedier consultant's appointment? I know you probably don't want to ask them, but for the sake of a few hundred you may find you can get treated more quickly.


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    #33
    PutDownArtist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 135 ✭✭PutDownArtist


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Clearly you have no idea of what travel insurance covers.

    Basically, if you're hurt overseas, it pays for your immediate treatment there, and then your repatriation home. It does not pay for continuing treatment once you're back at home - that is the responsibility of your home government, or whatever other arrangements your country makes for proving healthcare to its citizens.

    This is what happened for the OP, and it's the same for any other Irish person who is injured while working in Australia / Canada / South America etc - and for any person from those countries who is injured here in Ireland.

    IMHO as an Irish citizen, the OP is absolutely entitled to decent medical treatment, and to income support while s/he is unable to work. I would agree with the observation about the HSE being poorly run.

    And as for the country being broke - rubbish. You only need to look at the spending on the streets for Christmas to know that the recession has well and truly packed its bags.

    OP - is there any chance that your family can help with cash to get a speedier consultant's appointment? I know you probably don't want to ask them, but for the sake of a few hundred you may find you can get treated more quickly.

    It's a miracle: a poster on this site willing to show some compassion and who actually knows what empathy is. Allow me to savour this moment.

    If I had it, I would gladly pony up the cash to speed up my treatment; asking my parents is not really an option because they are both quite skint at the moment.

    It really has given me a boost knowing that not everyone on here wants me out on the street in the cold with my begging bowl.


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    #34
    Highflyer13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Highflyer13


    I've been waiting since last Christmas to see a consultant with breathing trouble. They put me on an inhaler and I went for specialist respiratory tests in June. The consultant is going to analyse last Decembers X-Rays and the respitory test results together. But I've been told that will be the new year. Tbh as the weather has got colder the last few days I've become very ill again. I feel like it is slowly killing me. Putting on a brave face but not sure what to do. Unnacepptable imo. I nearly died last Christmas after collapsing with breathing problems in work.

    My girlfriends sister is a doctor in Venezuela of all places so I'm considering going there to get sorted. Despite their garbage economy the health system doesn't seem awful.


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    #35
    Scared Hitless
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭Scared Hitless


    hfallada wrote: »
    But I dont think anyone in Ireland, would like to pay 8.2% of their income for health insurance. A good health system costs money, money which Irish people dont want spent on it.

    I used to work for the HSE and there is incredible waste throughout the system. A good health system would not waste money needlessly but the HSE are masters of it. It was embarrassing.


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    #36
    babyboom
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭babyboom


    Our doctor picked up an irregular heartbeat in my then 10 year old son. He waited 3½ years to get an appointment in Temple Street. Thankfully it turned out not to be serious but the waiting times, particularly for children, are ridiculous. I'm waiting for an MRI and have been told I will probably be waiting around 9 months. Let's hope those headaches are nothing too serious.


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    #37
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    babyboom wrote: »
    I'm waiting for an MRI and have been told I will probably be waiting around 9 months. Let's hope those headaches are nothing too serious.

    An MRI costs €200 - €220.

    If you truely value your health, the cost is equivalent a half year of UPC/Sky TV.

    I wouldn't be waiting 9 months for it to be given for free.


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    #38
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭Dan_Solo


    All I want to know is how do you save enough money for a holiday in Peru when you're on the dole?
    (if you didn't bring any money back that's basically what it was?)


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    #39
    PutDownArtist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 135 ✭✭PutDownArtist


    Dan_Solo wrote: »
    All I want to know is how do you save enough money for a holiday in Peru when you're on the dole?
    (if you didn't bring any money back that's basically what it was?)

    That would be because I wasn't on the dole, Danny.


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    PutDownArtist wrote: »
    That would be because I wasn't on the dole, Danny.

    Shame you didn't organise health insurance during the years you spent working in the states. Would obamacare not give you a dig out?


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    #41
    PutDownArtist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 135 ✭✭PutDownArtist


    endacl wrote: »
    Shame you didn't organise health insurance during the years you spent working in the states. Would obamacare not give you a dig out?

    You appear to know very little about how the US health system operates. What a surprise.


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