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  • There is no real reason for-profit healthcare would be more efficient at anything other than generating profit. In places with publicly funded health insurance, wait times for an appointment will depend on the urgency. So, you have to call a few weeks ahead if it’s a routine checkup, but you’ll be seen immediately without an appointment if you’re dying. Also, without the profit incentive, there isn’t much of a reason to schedule too many patients on a given day, so yeah, wait times are longer in for-profit healthcare countries.




  • CW self harm and suicidal ideation

    Depending on where you are, please be honest with your therapist. Usually they can’t (and don’t want to) get you committed unless they’re convinced you’re in immediate danger of badly harming yourself or others. If that’s the case, maybe going to the hospital isn’t a bad idea. I’ve talked to my therapist about suicidal ideation, frequent dreams about suicide that I found pleasant, and about self harming, and she never even considered it. All she did was refer me to a psychiatrist, but I wasn’t forced to see her, let alone committed to a hospital.

    Do look up whether the rules are different in your country, though.