[saubeidl]

As somebody who has money and lived in the US, absolutely.

The system is a joke. It takes forever to get MRI appointments. Everything has so much bureaucracy. You fill out forms and make calls and get letters and all this bullshit.

Meanwhile, I can just book stuff online instantly now that I live in europe.

And it's visible in outcomes, too. Life expectancy in the EU is around 5 years higher than in the US.

[ecb_penguin]

I think you've seriously confused the US and Europe.

> You fill out forms and make calls and get letters and all this bullshit.

No I don't? I log into my hospital health system, click a button to schedule a specialist, pick a time, and then submit.

"In 2023, the average waiting time was lowest in the U.S. and Switzerland (28 days), while it was highest in Spain (77 days) and France (63 days)." - https://www.statista.com/chart/33079/average-waiting-times-f...

> Meanwhile, I can just book stuff online instantly now that I live in europe.

That's how it works here too, lol. Are you comparing 1980s US vs 2020s Europe??? You know we have computers here in the US now...

[saubeidl]

Every single time I've went to a practice in the US, the first thing I had to do was fill out stacks of forms. I've never had to deal that here in the EU. Has that really changed in the past five years?

[ryandrake]

I’m in the US and it’s the same for me. Every single doctor I visit, it’s the same stack of papers with the same personal information and health history.

[ecb_penguin]

The vast majority of health systems use EHR systems. I mean, you can go to small clinics that don't share data with anyone, but that's on you.

[ecb_penguin]

Yes. Every doctor in my hospital group has access to my records. I don't fill out anything when I go.

[queenkjuul]

It hasn't