Yet they voted for Trudeau, a known quantity.
Screw them. Eat the sandwich you made.
govt healthcare
you never want to be a line item on a govt ledger
Canadians have screwed themselves and got what they voted for.
But the libs keep saying that govt run medicine is what this country needs. It’s more “equitable”.
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.
I would not trade American medical treatment for any other in the world.
bkmk
Trudeau is more interested in the Fake Global Warming and Dictatorship than helping people
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.
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).
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.
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.
Yeah, when it takes up to four or five months to get an MRI there, they come to the US and get one in three or four days.
A few years ago I had what turned out to be a kidney stone. I saw my doctor on Monday. He referred me to a specialist who I saw on Tuesday. The specialist had me in on Wednesday to laser blast the stone. This was all in the same week. And because of my insurance, I had zero out of pocket expenses. My wife had breast cancer a few years ago. She was seen immediately and had her surgery within a few weeks. The entire ordeal lasted most of the year with chemo and everything else associated with cancer treatment. Again, we had zero out of pocket expenses. I’ll take American health care over that of any other country.