So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Cuvier]

For me here I can usually get in to see my doctor in a day or so for routine things. If something more important comes up I can go to the walk in clinic in his practice and been seen immediately. If I get hurt the local ERs can get me to a specialist within an hour. Insurance will cover 80% after deductible and my HSA covers that. Only medical expenses I have are copays that are $30 or $55.
I think a lot of it depends on your location and what is available. I've never had trouble getting the care I need.
What gets me are the sleazy doctors that come room to room and sign the chart so that they can bill for it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

$7000 deductible here, and if you miss one payment at the local hospital they throw you to collections. I'm still paying off a $5000 bill I got stuck with three years ago due to a breast cancer scare. "Oh, insurance only covers routine mammograms, not diagnostic ones."

I can't wait for the liquidation of the health-care-insurance-complex.

 

[BobHufford]

Medical delays? Here in the land of the HA HA HA "greatest healthcare system in the world" I've never gotten less than a three-month lead time for routine visits. And I have to drive nearly sixty miles each way.

I was able to "get" an appointment with a migraine specialist for mid-October. I made the appointment through my primary physician in early-April.

 

[Cuvier]

My last medical appointment was for my broken ankle. Called in and they offered me an appointment the next day. I had to postpone it for later to fit my schedule next non-emergency. My last MRI was supposed to cost me $4000 I called my insurance and told them about it. I got directed to another place that was closer, had an appointment 3 weeks earlier and it cost me $250. The thing is, many medical providers won't tell you they're out of network as they can charge you whatever they want. Instead they say they "accept" your insurance. Which means they'll bill your insurance then you for whatever they feel like. Your insurance will help you a lot if you give them a chance.

 

[Turnip]

Here in the Kaiserreich you just show up in the morning at your family doctor without prior appointment when feeling sick, get your sick note if necessary and that is it. In case you should need to meet a radiologist… your family doctor makes you a respective referral, in case of emergency to a hospital. Your insurance will help you to get a short lead time at the specialist, hospitals will accept you anyway in case of emergency. Whatever research, screening, MRT, CT…found to be necessary and all above is covered by the compulsory health insurance without any further costs for you.

 

[Trenchfriend]

But tell me:
North American women, named "Candy" are not really named this way, right? Mostly Candida, for real??

 

[LizzieMaine]

More usually "Candace" or "Candice." Not a common name, but it had brief vogues in the 1940s (there was a teen-humor comic book character named "Candy") and again the 1970s.

 

[Zombie_61]

But tell me:
North American women, named "Candy" are not really named this way, right? Mostly Candida, for real??

I've lived in North America for 62 years, and in all of that time I've met ONE woman named "Candy", though it would be more accurate to say she was nicknamed "Candy" and her name was probably "Candida", or "Candita", or something similar.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

The only Candice I know of (never met any) is this one: https://hollywoodlife.com/pics/candice-bergen-young-photos/various-1967-3, but I never heard of her referred to as "Candy".

 

[Turnip]

The only Candice I’ve heard of is Candice Isralow, the wife of Ritchie Blackmore and Trällerelse in his „Renaissance“-band.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I came to it from Youtube, because of Kevin Hodge's wife Candy.

She's from Mexico, as Keith's wife is, too. But would a mexican family name a girl really "Candy". I don't think so. So I think, most women won't be called as the yeast infection...

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Voltaire's Candide comes to mind.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

$7000 deductible here, and if you miss one payment at the local hospital they throw you to collections. I'm still paying off a $5000 bill I got stuck with three years ago due to a breast cancer scare. "Oh, insurance only covers routine mammograms, not diagnostic ones."

I can't wait for the liquidation of the health-care-insurance-complex.

Try the NHS here. I know people who've waited ages for surgery. One acquaintance flew to New York.

 

[tonyb]

More usually "Candace" or "Candice." Not a common name, but it had brief vogues in the 1940s (there was a teen-humor comic book character named "Candy") and again the 1970s.

Candice Bergen, born 1946, comes to mind, and a lovely mental image it is. I’ve never heard her called Candie, though. (And yes, she’s Edgar Bergen’s daughter.)

The lovely missus and I have a friend named Candie. I don’t believe it’s a nickname. She’s only 48 or so.

But yes, Trenchfriend, the name does conjure images of sugary confections.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Try the NHS here. I know people who've waited ages for surgery. One acquaintance flew to New York.

When I needed major surgery twenty years ago, I had no insurance. I drove eight hours to a private hospital in Montreal and had my surgery there for literally 60 percent less than I would have paid to the extortionate medicoindustrial thugs here in the Land of the Fee. And the waiting period was only a matter of weeks. God bless the Maple Leaf.

 

[Fifty150]

The only girls I've ever met named "Candy", were using the name "Candy" as a stage name. "Cocoa", "Candy", "Honey", "Cinnamon", "Jade", "Ruby", "Diamond", "Gemma", "Sparkles", "Sugar", "Caramel", "Mocha", "China", "Kitty", "Cinnamon", "Eve", "Vampira", "Lulu", "Bebe", "Cece", "Sissy", "Lana", "Lola", "Star","Cherry", "Peaches", "Roxie", "Chica"........... and once, I met a stripper who used the stage name of "Sparky". I asked her why. She said that all the good names were already taken. She wanted to be "Sparkles". There was already a "Sparkles" on the day shift. She didn't want people to confuse them.

At the strip clubs, I tell them that my name is Shecky Diamond. Shecky is short for Shekel. Not one stripper I met, knew what a shekel was.

 

[Turnip]

Meyer Lansky would.

 

[Trenchfriend]

An Silver Shekel = 60 Deutsche Mark

 

[Trenchfriend]

Just as sidenote, some words on Germany's big(ger) cities:

Whatever someone from Germany tells you, I can tell you this:
NEVER anyone in the bigger cities or their main stations tried to grab onto my handbag or other pockets. It just never happened. Never anything of my stuff got lost.

 

[Zombie_61]

...At the strip clubs, I tell them that my name is Shecky Diamond. Shecky is short for Shekel. Not one stripper I met, knew what a shekel was.

As of me looking it up a moment ago, a Sheqel is approximately 0.2629 of a US dollar.