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Most provincial governments in Canada are too trying to choke off social medicine (i.e. Canadian health care system) so corporates can come in and do a “better job”. Conservatives are pretty blatant about it.
Yep. Alberta is currently breaking up Alberta Health Services in a clear “Divide & Conquer” attempt.
Meanwhile, here in the states, thanks to financial help from my mother, the over $10,000 in medical debt we’ve racked up over the past year is less than $10,000!
I hit my maximum out of pocket for the year.
Our system is so fucked up I’m actively wanting all the major medical issues coming over the next decade to hit all at once right now.
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It wasn’t “free” - you paid for it in taxes
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How are those wait lists going for you, which are currently being debated by your MPs?
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It’s funny how y’all are shouting about this to Americans. Do you really think they aren’t aware you have socialized medicine?
- It wasn’t “free” - you paid for it in taxes
And gladly. That is an excellent use of my tax dollars. It tends to keep people healthy, without going broke.
- How are those wait lists going for you, which are currently being debated by your MPs?
For my current health needs, I have no complaints about wait lists.
- It’s funny how y’all are shouting about this to Americans. Do you really think they aren’t aware you have socialized medicine?
If Americans knew about socialized medicine, they’d have it, since it is less expensive than private healthcare, and leads to better outcomes.
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Well yeah but you have those long wait times to deal with right?
Here in America, I only had to wait 4 weeks for a video conference (in-person would have been 6 weeks) with my primary care physician so she could recommend me to a specialist that doesn’t have any openings until mid-August. Thank goodness I live in the land of the free where I only have to wait 3 months to see a doctor who has about a 20% chance to cancel on me last minute due to a “scheduling issues” and leave me hanging for another 4-8 weeks.
AND I get to pay for some of it out of pocket despite paying monthly for better than average medical insurance!
USA #1
I’ve opted to wait a year to change insurance companies so I could resume seeing my old doc instead of starting the process as a new patient under someone else, because honestly I’d be seen at a comparative time.
Canada here… yes wait times are a bitch
But it must be clarified this is not a result of socialized medicine… this is mostly a result of Politicians (largely Conservatives) starving the system as hard as they can just to justify Private Medicine as the only solution.
Can you give us a break down? How are politicians slowing down the speed of intakes - wait times?
I’m going to assume (against common sense, this is an honest question)…
Most recent example
Less money = less staff, less maintenance, less services => more people with no choice but to go to Emerg, hospitals that work putting out fires all the time with less staff to go by… long term, it also causes people NOT too go into health care as a profession
They are literally planning to shrink hospital capacity
That’s… effed up. I mean that is a stupid fkin move. I never heard of shrinking hospital capacity, at least not in the sense of staff.
Cue Americans angry that other countries don’t force their citizens into bankruptcy for getting sick in 3… 2…
Nah, I just get annoyed when people rub their free healthcare that we already know about in our faces. Especially on a site like this where most everyone agrees that the US healthcare system is trash.
We feel do completely overshadowed by American sports and culture that we take what few victories we have and run with them.
Trade you baseball and basketball for your healthcare…
Trade you Putin for baseball and basketball. Or for anything else, just take Putin.
