From what I can tell, the problems that the health care system here has are similar to the problems the U.S. has -- I mean, I have a hard time believing that private health care never has long waits in clinics or ERs, and never has geographical availability problems (the major problem in Canada is getting enough doctors/nurses/facilities anywhere but cities) and never biffs the triage of a serious case. Right?
But you have that and ALSO straight up access problems. Here, no one is uninsured, every facility takes the insurance and it costs me some percentage of my overall income tax that I don't even rightly know because it's not that much -- whether I use the walk-in clinic once or have to have major surgery. And no one has to screw around with 134567 million private insurers.
Anyway, none of those weird attack ads is going to tell you what the system up here does right... which is the successful and timely treatment of several thousand people a day, and 100% coverage. I feel for people who caught the short end of the stick, for sure, but there's wider compensations. *shrug*
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Date: 2009-07-29 02:05 am (UTC)But you have that and ALSO straight up access problems. Here, no one is uninsured, every facility takes the insurance and it costs me some percentage of my overall income tax that I don't even rightly know because it's not that much -- whether I use the walk-in clinic once or have to have major surgery. And no one has to screw around with 134567 million private insurers.
Anyway, none of those weird attack ads is going to tell you what the system up here does right... which is the successful and timely treatment of several thousand people a day, and 100% coverage. I feel for people who caught the short end of the stick, for sure, but there's wider compensations. *shrug*