“Norwegian hospitals are free though. I was just surprised the first time I learned Norwegians pay at all to visit the doctor because I assumed we had the same system.”
“Norwegian hospitals are free though. I was just surprised the first time I learned Norwegians pay at all to visit the doctor because I assumed we had the same system.”
If I’m talking to a doctor over a cold, it’s solely because work is requiring a doctor’s note.
At least my current workplace has a contract with a free telehealth service, so I can use that instead of clogging up an in-person doctors’ office just to get a stupid piece of paper that means, “Your employee isn’t lying.”
Which is fine. It’s just some people do clog up the normal system with minor things. I especially see this with people for whom going to an appointment is no inconvenience (no work, so the retired anf nervous mothers, etc.). The minor charge helps avoid a situation in which they have an outsized effect on health care expenditures for the state.