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lifestyleguru • today at 10:02 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Sir are you aware of the state of Polish public healthcare and the nearby war?


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bartekrutkowski • today at 10:06 AM

I am very well aware. Again, the question still stands: when was that the public healthcare provided more services, for more diseases, better medications, better care? When was that there was no wars in Poland for longer than it is currently?

I'm aware of all the issues we're dealing with, with the horrible war in Ukraine, but that's still unspeakably better situation than it was in 1945 or in 1965 or any other time before that. I hate any war, I'm not happy with the one in Ukraine, but I will take any war happening in the country next to the one I am in, over a war happening in the country I am in.

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subscribed • today at 12:07 PM

Mate, I'm saying that as someone living in the UK (with friends and relative in Poland so I have close ties) - Poland has much better healthcare than many, for example the UK.

If I need a doctor who actually listens, or the consultation in less than 2 years, this is the way, and it's a world-class care as well.

Sure there are subpar parts of the healthcare in Poland, but until all you can get is 15 minutes phone chat with the GP (two days away if it's urgent) instead of in-person visit, or 47 minutes wait for the ambulance in case of stroke or heart attack (in Poland it's ~10 min in cities, ~20 in the villages) you really don't have anything to be ashamed of.

Complain, if you can improve it, yeah. But it's a good service. Just overworked and underpaid.

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