What? In Canada, people can still purchase private coverage if they want.
Only in the land of the free, you won’t be allowed to do it - or keep your current plan if you like it.
That’s what they don’t tell you about BernieCare, among other things.
Depending on the Party in power, they can use Medicare for all to decide who lives and who dies via approving or not approving life-saving care or any care. Same as Obama’s DeathCare.
Having lived in two states bordering Canada and worked in healthcare all of my life, I can tell you that Canadians quite often come south for the important stuff. And pay cash for it too. By this I mean diagnostic medicine.
Some of my friends from just across the border have been told drugs they were taking had "run out" when they were plentiful here in America. Why is that?
Finally I have had Canadian friends tell me symptoms they had sought help for - for *years* in the Canadian system - and made suggestions which led to exactly the dx I strongly suspected. Hypothyridism. Celiac disease. These are not zebras.
But socialized medicine is a dream! Really it is. It's the greatest!!