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| Epyx:
As a Canadian thought I would throw in my 2 cents...the system works for casual inquiries and life and death situations but a lot of the middle of the road procedures take way, way too long. For example, you can wait up to a year to get hernia surgery, 6 months for an MRI etc...going to a private clinic you have to pay here in BC but you get that MRI the same day and your surgery within a week. A co-worker had a choice to spend 6 months in agony waiting for hernia surgery or pay 6K to get it done privately...I bet you know which he chose? ;) NOw with that said I love our system but the public option isn't as rosy as people would paint it...lots of room for improvement ala the European models. |
| ids:
That's the other problem with the Canadian system - it varies from Province to Province. In Ontario, there is no private system. But we don't wait as much as in B.C. either, it seems to me. The Ontario government monitors wait-times to ensure they remain low. We also don't have that MSP thing mentioned earlier. However, it's not perfect here either. But what we definitely aren't missing is the worry over ability to pay for it. The government doesn't dictate anything about how health care is delivered, they just pay for it. They do keep an eye on things so as to better target certain kinds of funding (ie. do we need more MRI machines? another hospital?). The feds basically stay out of it, dictating only the minimal free coverage for the whole country, and sending money to provinces to help pay for it. Anyway, and hopefully this is obvious; shmokes I hope they get you all fixed up, and that the costs are manageable. markronz, glad it was only $30. And this thread (and others) continues to remind me of the mantra "safety first" - thanks. (fwiw, this months SciAm weights in on the subject too) |
| ChadTower:
--- Quote from: ids on September 30, 2010, 09:32:26 pm --- --- Quote from: BobA on September 30, 2010, 07:40:17 pm ---Thank God for universal health care in Canada. --- End quote --- +1 I can see as many doctors as I want, as often as I want, wherever I want, for any or no reason at all. --- End quote --- -1. When I lived in Canada it was a 6 month wait, at best, for basic preventive screenings. Anything that was more complex than that would be 9 months of wait. Surgery that wasn't for a life threatening condition is a year. I watched my grandfather go mostly blind waiting nearly a year for corrective eye surgery. Canadian health care works great in the major population centers. Move someplace like PEI or Southern NS and try it. It might change your mind. |
| shmokes:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 04, 2010, 02:42:47 pm ---Canadian health care works great in the major population centers. Move someplace like PEI or Southern NS and try it. It might change your mind. --- End quote --- If you don't live in a major population center can you travel to one for medical care? If so, that sounds a lot like the U.S. People in rural areas have to travel to a population center to have anything more complicated than what a G.P. can do. At best, if you're in a town of 25,000+ you might have an O.B. and a dermatologist and it takes a month to see them. That is, of course, assuming that you can afford to see them. |
| Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: shmokes on October 04, 2010, 05:40:38 pm ---If you don't live in a major population center can you travel to one for medical care? --- End quote --- Yeah, but then they need to hitch up the dogs, fend off polar bears... It's a lot of work. |
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