 masbury says: Are taxes high? Is bureaucracy huge? Author has used both US and Canadian systems, and finds the Canadian better. I also clipped on a parallel topic from a different source. I also find it interesting that the Medicare overhead costs are a fraction of that of private insurers. I hope he is right because it is coming. As much as I wish it were, there's nothing like it on the table here. Here, they're just talking about changing how healthcare is paid; there's nothing that makes the government an actual provider of healthcare services, only of healthcare payment for private services. Another Myth: Canada’s government decides who gets health care and when they get it. While HMOs and other private medical insurers in the U.S. do indeed make such decisions, the only people in Canada to do so are physicians. In Canada, the government has absolutely no say in who gets care or how they get it. Medical decisions are left entirely up to doctors, as they should be. Wait times in Canada are also grossly exaggerated. For medically-necessary surgery, the wait is rarely more than 9 days. For urgently-needed surgery, it's usually done within 36 hours, and emergency surgery has no waiting time. The only real wait time is for medically-unnecessary surgery like nose jobs, breast implants and other cosmetic surgery for purely vanity reasons. It's incredibly sad how many people in the US have to suffer because of other people's paranoia, ignorance, and greed. Canada may not have the best healthcare in the world, but it works, and people are taken care of. Without making any judgments as to truth of the author's claims. I want to point out nothing was sourced by the author of these supposed debunkings, and it is categorized a "perspective" piece. Statistics have shown that US healthcare costs approximately 50% more than the same healthcare does in Canada; and that's taking into account the differences in the USD and the Canadian dollar. That 50% is what the private Health Care Industry and the Pharmacology Industry are sucking out of your pocket, while providing nothing whatsoever to your healthcare. That qualifies it as a scam. It's true sometimes we have to wait. But, we do get treated. We do not get refused because we don't have insurance. Good comments! And we in the USA have to wait for some things, too. I waited three months, I believe, for a sleep study to test for sleep apnea, then perhaps another month for treatment to begin. "Oh, no! What if we have to wait for some things for three months!" We do. It's rare that Canadians need to wait 3 months for medically-necessary treatment. Average wait time is somewhere around 9 days, with many of the treatments/operations requiring only a 1-3 day wait. Sure you can find cases of much longer waits. You can find them in the US as well, but long waiting times are most definitely not the norm in Canada. The Republicans are purposely looking for instances in Canada where there has been an abnormally long wait time, and trying to convince people that is what it's like all throughout Canada. That is completely and utterly dishonest, and not a true reflection of just how good socialized medicine is. The Republicans are in the pocket of the Health Insur... From the Wikipedia article on Universal health care: Universal health care is implemented in all but one of the wealthy, industrialized countries, with the exception being the United States.[1][2] It is also provided in many developing countries and is the trend worldwideMaybe we`ll get a comprehensive health care program when we part company with Liberia and Myanmar and go on the metric system. |
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