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.
what people seem never to talk about..is the impact this will have on the doctors...they’re not gonna put up with this government non sense..especially the very good surgeons and specialists. the better practices will just say “sorry..cash only”...i called a top notch dermatologist in Bloomfield Hills Michigan...and they dont even accept Medicare..let alone Medicaid. Imagine the fraud and abuse with over 300 million people in a single payer system...it’ll be chaos. Btw, Canada pays over 5 dollars a gallon for gas to pay for the “free” health care.
“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.”
A couple of weeks ago we discussed Affirmative Action as it relates to doctors and how many of us would never consider a black doctor, simply because we don’t have a way to know if he’s actually qualified...he could well be another Ben Carson...but, more likely, not.
The effect of my decision and millions like me has to be really tough on minority doctors, but this is health care, not lawn care.
But when the government ASSIGNS doctors to the masses, then that effect goes away, since the ability to avoid doctors which may have been ‘pushed along’ no longer exists.