[Hootowl99]

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.

[cgbg]

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

Yup—that is what is called socialism in action—one system for the elites and wealthy, another system for the peons.