Currently, and after many years with private insurance, I do not have any and I am 100% cared for by the public. I wouldn't even think of getting private insurance again, not even if they gave it to me! How did I have private insurance before? Well, as they have said, because of my old job that offered private insurance offers even though I had diseases that were prohibited for private insurance, such as diabetes, because if not, it was impossible to get it because it was considered a serious illness. Furthermore, at that time of the offer and, because I did not have a place of residence that would last more than 3 or 4 years, I considered it the best option to only make an appointment with the endocrinologist I chose in the town where I will be assigned for work. Speaking of the medical care of those different private endocrinologists, well, I had to explain my entire journey with diabetes for the care they gave me, not like in the public one where, since everything is registered and centralized, any new endocrinologist has access to your entire history. Also, fortunately since I hardly had any complications, the check-ups were practically just looking at my diary and giving me a couple of instructions or a change of insulin, easy, come on. On the other hand, in this time of private insurance, when I did not have a co-payment, the monthly payment of a not small amount was subtracted from my payroll, in addition to what we all already paid for Social Security that I did not use at that time. For colds and other nonsense, very good, the next day the doctor saw me and sent me the appropriate antibiotic.
The bad thing was when I had illnesses, such as a cervical disc herniation with chronic residual neuropathic pain and an operation complicated by the accesses that had to be performed. At that time, the deadlines for care and solutions in private healthcare were already prolonged and, practically all of them, they told me that they would operate on me but that to do so they recommended that I go to the public one, due to the quality of the hospitals, devices to use and care in case of any inconvenience, which meant that, if in the end for what was important they themselves sent me to the private one, then I decided to stop deducting that money from my salary.
In summary, although it is true that the public must be provided with more professionals to shorten waiting times, I WON'T GO CRAZY TO THE PRIVATE ONE! For what is important, they disappear, but yes, they want to charge you at a gold price, while we are paying public Social Security that has the best professionals and the best resources and hospitals.
I don't pay a million for a simple cold, the truth is, and what we should fight for is to reinforce Public Health with more professionals to reduce waiting times and that will begin to be fulfilled when communities do not divert so much money from their budgets to Private Health that, when push comes to shove, is not going to respond to you.
Sorry for the blurb but, as I said, I DON'T ACTUALLY WANT PRIVATE HEALTH!!
Diabético tipo I desde 1990 y tengo 54 tacos. En Abril de 2017 inicio Bomba con Minimed 640g y su MCG que, en Diciembre de 2025, ha pasado a Simplera, después del Enlite, Guardian 3 y 4. Estoy con Minimed 780G. Financiado MCG por la SS desde Junio-2018. Hipertensión arterial y ocular. Colesterol. Operado de 2 hernias discales cervicales (C5-C6 y C6-C7) pero con diagnóstico de "Operación fallida". La diabetes todo me lo perjudica....y nos arruina, la Seguridad Social debería financiar A TODOS!!!!! no cuando estás medio muerto como a mí!!!
Última HBA1C: 6,5% (después de muchos años en 9%)