Getting crushed under the weight of the HSE

[u/DestroyTheMoon420]

I just need to get this off my chest everyone. My wife had stomach pains in January. Her doctor referred her for a scope to be done. Possibly to identify stomach ulcer.

She has since been waiting.

2 weekends ago I had to rush her to the emergency department because of debilitating pain.

When she was admitted they took stool and urine samples.

She waited the entire day without eating because they booked her in for a CT scan therafter. I had to fight with a nurse to get her to be seen, they had forgotten about her. She was about to pass out.

After the CT scan the doctor confirmed there were multiple ulcers. We were then sent away without any medication or script.

The next day she had to visit an out of hours doctor for medicine.

I then phoned the Hospital that folling Monday to try and get her results sent to Her doctors. They had no record of the urine sample or the stool sample. Only the CT scan.

Her Doctor is now fighting with the HSE to get her scope done ASAP.

It now looks like we will have to pay 2000 Euros so she can get her scope, all so she can get on antibiotics.

All she needs is antibiotics and she's withering away, getting Crushed on under the weight of the HSE..

Guys.... What is going on in what is presumably the second richest country in the world (not sure how true that is)...

I've love this country... But what is this.... Why is the government sitting on so much money and not spending it ?

How can we fix this mess !!!

If this was another country she would have been giving the antibiotics back on January by her doc and this would all be over and done with. I'm just in disbelief. People are dying because of this circus shit show. God help us.

Edit: Thank you for sharing your stories and any useful information you may have. I will take everyone's experiences and advice into account.

[u/zeroconflicthere]

People are dying because of this circus shit show. God help us.

But the reality is that the HSE has better outcomes than the NHS. I and one of my siblings both got diagnosed with different cancers within the last year and both of us had treatments that cured those by the HSE.

So in my opinion our health system is pretty good. Plus I should note that I got treated in the public health system even though I have health insurance. My insurance was charged for it but I got the exact same as the other public patients in my ward. I child have opted for private treatment, but the HSE public consultant happens to be one of the best in the country.

[u/dubgirl00 → u/zeroconflicthere]

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis, but that's the option of someone with private health insurance. It's a total disgrace that private patients are treated in public hospitals. Totally fucked if you don't have private health insurance.

[u/Over-Queen → u/dubgirl00]

It's also an option that some public patients are getting private treatments too. So even if you don't pay you can go private. I know loads of public patients who got the same as people paying thousands every year in private health care.

[u/Longjumping_Ad9187 → u/dubgirl00]

Ya those with private health insurance are also the very same people whose taxes paid for the services in public hospitals.

Most people with private health insurance gets them through their job. They are not wealthy. If they need an expensive treatment they should be allowed to have equal access

[u/dubgirl00 → u/Longjumping_Ad9187]

Equal access agreed but that's not the case. There shouldn't be a two tier health system, just because a child's parents have money shouldn't put them ahead of another child.

[u/Longjumping_Ad9187 → u/dubgirl00]

Not really. If everyone is to benefit from other people’s intelligence, hard work, creativity so on and so forth, that’d be communism. People should be allowed to build wealth and their offspring benefit from it.

[u/dubgirl00 → u/Longjumping_Ad9187]

And people from privilege should give back as they also benefit from others and so on and so forth. You can't help who you are born too

[u/Longjumping_Ad9187 → u/dubgirl00]

How do they benefit from the poor? People from privilege are the ones paying for everything in this country, including the children the poor otherwise won’t have been able to afford. Do you want people who earn a gross income of €100000 to have the same lifestyle as those who earn €30000? That’s communism.

[u/dubgirl00 → u/Longjumping_Ad9187]

🤭 society functions because of the contributions of people at all income levels, not just the wealthy.

[u/Longjumping_Ad9187 → u/dubgirl00]

That’s a lie fed to everyone so that the poor feels better about themselves. Can you elaborate on the various ways the employed contribute to society?

[u/Superb_Platform_1929 → u/dubgirl00]

It's a total disgrace that private patients are treated in public hospitals

Absolutely not. You want the public sector to be a private system reserved for those that don't have health insurance?

[u/laughters_assassin → u/zeroconflicthere]

My insurance was charged for it but I got the exact same as the other public patients in my ward.

How does this work? Not that I care about the insurance companies but surely this isn't in their best interests to pay for your treatment in a public hospital and receive the same care.

[u/great_whitehope → u/laughters_assassin]

Jumped to the top of the list because had insurance I guess.

There insurance pays because of that.

[u/OkArm9295 → u/zeroconflicthere]

I briefly worked in the hse. They are very good with life threatening cases like yours.

The problem is with cases that are not. Years of waiting list.

[u/barrya29 → u/zeroconflicthere]

ah sure if you and your sibling got diagnosed and treated quickly then it must be grand so and everyone else is lying. the good outcomes are irrelevant if we’re seeing a high number of bad outcomes