Canada’s ‘Free’ Healthcare

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But in Canada it’s illegal to pay cash.

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Did not know this. fricking Syrupeans...

There's always MAiD.

Canada sucks.

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rather than wait 1-2 years.

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So he has to limp around for two years

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elective procedure.

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Quality of life is the pinnacle of freedom in my opinion. As someone who has had three knee surgeries, it is NOT elective.

I can’t imagine having a bum knee and trying to have a two year old to manage.

Just the hell up trying to defend this.

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Canadian, European, and Australian health care are great for emergent, urgent, and primary care. Once you get into specialty care and non- life threatening surgery, it’s a nightmare to navigate.

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My father-in-law in Australia had to wait two and a half years to get knee replacement surgery. He is 76 years old now, and says if he gets really sick (like cancer) he is pretty much done for.

My sister-in-law (no pics) is a cardiac nurse at a children's hospital in Canada. She has said for years that the system is pretty shite, but God forbid anyone says anything negative about it.

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Canadian, European, and Australian health care are great for emergent, urgent, and primary care. Once you get into specialty care and non-life threatening surgery, it’s a nightmare to navigate.

I will continue to “pay more” for our system. The cost to access on demand care is something I do not want to give up.

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yep. before retiring, my dad worked overseas for BP. he would talk tot he UK workers about their health care. they said the had great diagnostic care and great emergency care, but everything was considered "low priority' and had a long wait list.

cataracts in one eye, not critical since you still had one working eye. wait list.

So what exactly is the advantage of their system if you're saying its basically the same as ours?

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wait 1-2 years.

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I can literally have an ultrasound done this afternoon if I needed one and an MRI tomorrow.

I’ve actually done it before.

Single payer is a communist scam.

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Her and her husband thought i had to be lying.

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This is what gets me, these people are old enough to remember life before the BS change, but have been mind f@cked into forgetting it.

It is the same here regarding health insurance. My family never had insurance growing up. We went to a primary doctor who handled 90% of the issue, paid in cash and never had an issue. (6 kids mind you, one income household)

Insurance is the answer to the problem it created - like addiction. if we removed health insurance accept for terminal care and chronic family disease like it was meant, prices would drop, costs would drop.

People would go back to learning to go to the doctor when they needed to instead of as a security blanket.

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elective procedure.

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Have you ever had a torn up knee? I suppose there can be levels of pain that would make it elective but I had one done and there was nothing elective about it. I was in near constant pain and seriously limited in what I could do.