[butlerweave]

Written by someone that has no clue about Canadian Healthcare

[PGR88]

but our role is to find sources of quality surgery delivered at deeply discounted pricing," Baker shares. "We negotiate prices which are a fraction of what a Canadian might pay if he were to knock on the door of an American hospital by himself."

Can you please organize this service for Americans in America too???

[Brilliant]

Canada has the same problem we do. Not enough doctors. Except it’s worse in Canada.

[buwaya]

The US government and the States between them (all healthcare public spending, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) spend 2X what Canada (at all levels) spends per citizen. And this is adjusted for price levels.

If the US really wanted a Canadian health system it could have it twice over, with what it already collects in taxes and FICA.

The real problem is that US medical care provision is incredibly inefficient.

[Lurker]

“Yes – if they’ll listen to logic”

That’s funny right there.

L

[napscoordinator]

I have two sets of Canadian neighbors who live here 6 months out of the year and run back home to Canada the other 6 because they can only be out of country 6 months out of the year. They love the medical system up there. I am always pleading with them to stay here and just get insurance on their own, but they think I am nuts to suggest such a thing. I always tell them about how they have to wait so long for surgery and of course our stupid neighbor Bill who needed knee replacement surgery and hip surgery wouldn’t do it until he lost 40 pounds.....Canadian said see that is what the Canadian system does to....it ensures you are healthy enough to be operated on and have a positive recovery.
It really doesn’t help that our system is basically Canada’s.

[econjack]

I had a friend who lived about 325 miles north of Toronto in the small village of Tilden Lake. Her doctor in North Bay said she needed to see a heart specialist in Toronto. It turned out she needed bypass surgery. She was placed on the list for the surgery. Expected wait: 19 months. She died four months later. Free health care? Really? What good is it if you die before you can get access to it?

[Reverend Wright]

Here is the current list of GPs taking patients in the Victoria BC area. Yeah, that’s right, one clinic for a city of 400K.

http://www.victoriamedicalsociety.org/gp-listings/

I have a cousin in the Vancouver area who had a baby last year. Neither her or the baby have a family Dr, they go to a clinic and see whoever is there.

You don’t deal with the homeless by evicting everyone from their homes and forcing them to live in public housing... but that was the theory behind Canada’s “single payer” health care.

In Canada it is illegal to buy or sell private health insurance - for people.

You can purchase heath insurance for your dog, but not for your kid.

[Mears]

bfl

[free_life]

Divide Canada’s total annual expenditure on health care by population and it works out to be over $6300 for every man, woman and child in Canada.

In Canada like here, most people cannot afford private health care or Cadillac insurance. Both systems are broken big time.

[crz]

One of the worlds champion bagpipers had a stroke years ago. A young man at the time. They took him to the ER and he lay there for hours while they did nothing.

He cant play the pipes anymore.

I could give you his name but...

[PGalt]

Enjoy your life. Stay healthy.

FUBernie. ESAD.

[Oatka]

Canadians are paying what Baker describes as "crushing" personal taxes

Will somebody from up there give us some rates? Just a gross salary and the percentage the government takes.