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Canadians less satisfied in their access to health care than Americans: poll
CBC News ^ | September 7, 2022 | Nick Logan

Posted on 09/07/2022 7:40:05 AM PDT by billorites

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1 posted on 09/07/2022 7:40:05 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

Yet they voted for Trudeau, a known quantity.

Screw them. Eat the sandwich you made.


2 posted on 09/07/2022 7:45:05 AM PDT by Salvavida (“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”)
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To: billorites

govt healthcare

you never want to be a line item on a govt ledger


3 posted on 09/07/2022 7:59:08 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: billorites

Canadians have screwed themselves and got what they voted for.


4 posted on 09/07/2022 8:00:01 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: billorites

But the libs keep saying that govt run medicine is what this country needs. It’s more “equitable”.


5 posted on 09/07/2022 8:00:07 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Salvavida

More Canadians voted for the other party


6 posted on 09/07/2022 8:03:06 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: billorites

I can sympathize. Even with great healthcare insurance and an ability to choose any doctor, specialist, facility, etc. I’ve attempted these last two years during all this Covid nonsense I’ve had to wait sometimes up to 4 months to be able to get an appointment to see a specialist. And when I did finally get in, there were other impediments to procedures and surgery that extended that delay upwards of up to almost a year.

I can’t imagine what it would be like in Canada now.


7 posted on 09/07/2022 8:05:24 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: billorites

I would not trade American medical treatment for any other in the world.


8 posted on 09/07/2022 8:07:21 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Signalman

Equality is a non achievable goal. At least half the population is lower than average.

Less than average means there is no equality for a lot of reasons.

In theory, Americans are equal under the law, but everybody knows that is not true, especially when the tyrants have weaponized the law to put down their opposition.


9 posted on 09/07/2022 8:12:41 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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bkmk


10 posted on 09/07/2022 8:12:55 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: billorites

Trudeau is more interested in the Fake Global Warming and Dictatorship than helping people


11 posted on 09/07/2022 8:13:23 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Known, predicted and expected. Time for them to rot in the system they asked for.

Nothing will get fixed until enough people begun to truly suffer (and do mean suffer) under the consequences they were warned about.


12 posted on 09/07/2022 8:13:39 AM PDT by Skwor
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Healthcare needed in weeks is only years away.


13 posted on 09/07/2022 8:25:03 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: billorites

Just remember, liberal-voting Canadians... none of the folks you voted for have to wait for any medical treatments.

Rules for you - but not for them.


14 posted on 09/07/2022 8:27:35 AM PDT by simpson96
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I usually buy travel insurance when I visit the spousal unit’s Canadian family. It includes air ambulance to the US.

There is a standing order - if I need medical care, evac me to a US hospital rather let me be tortured in the Canada health care system (that comes from past experience).


15 posted on 09/07/2022 8:35:52 AM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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If you need a doctor you have to wait months at times to see one. Then if you need an x-ray, mri then wait months more.
Meanwhile if you do not die you are in pain from the bad knee or hip etc.
Along the US side of the border clinics have been setup and Canadians arrange to go there to get treated right away and get mri the day they arrive.

In Canada the gov’t lets you suffer and hope you die.


16 posted on 09/07/2022 8:43:40 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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Yup. And how many of them have moved to Canada, the UK, or Cuba for the sake of their health care?

They are true morons.


17 posted on 09/07/2022 8:56:00 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: billorites
The Canadian medical system described in the OP is essentially what Obama Care was intended to be. I worked in Ontario for a year under a CA visa equivalent to the US H1B visa. This required me to have CA health insurance among other items.

CA federal law requires the provinces and territories to provide universal health insurance. It’s left to the provinces to fill in the details and oversee.

Bottom line is that medical care is functionally limited and rationed compared to the US. This especially accurate for “elective” procedures such as cataract surgery. This is something I looked into since at some point I’ll need this.

First thing I found out that a person needed to schedule the procedure before October or so before the yearly allotment of slots ran out until the next year started. Next, the technologies used in CA were 1 or 2 generations obsolete compared to the US.

There was a second, boutique level of medical care if a person had cash.

18 posted on 09/07/2022 9:06:06 AM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: Signalman

“It’s more “equitable”.

Suckers !!


19 posted on 09/07/2022 9:06:39 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Colt1851Navy

Nothing new. 20 years ago, when I was living/working in SE Michigan (auto industry) there were clinics in the Detroit area that specifically catered to Canadians. CAT scans and even plain old X-rays especially, but also dentistry. Cash and carry.

OTOH in the ‘80s a motorcycle racing colleague dropped his Norton at Mosport, smashed his pelvis up badly. Was a month in hospital before he could be moved home to the States; he was never charged a dime.


20 posted on 09/07/2022 9:08:48 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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