Canadians may have to wait longer in line for a CAT scan, but at least they won't have to sell their first born to do it. It's a system which is accessible to every citizen, with or without money in the bank. Just how much good does free cancer care do you when it takes so long to be diagnosed and scheduled for surgery, that it becomes terminal?
What Canada provides is equally bad treatment for all but the super rich
What the US provides is the best health care in the world at an affordable though steep price for all but the marginal.
In both countries, you get exactly what you pay for.
So9
I don't think Quebec is exactly the right example to use since they have their very "own" health care system. The rest of the Provinces are Provincially and Federally regulated but NOT Quebec. In any event, I that we in B.C. pay health care premiums. There are only two Provinces in Canada that pay premiums and B.C. is one of them. For David and I it is $100.00 a month. I don't mind at all and I am all for two tiering the system. A Private MRI clinic just got up and running this past summer here in Kelowna. It started in Alberta where they started allowing "privately owned" clinics to spring up thereby taking some of the pressure off of the "system". And why not? I trained as an RN at the Vancouver General Hospital. It WAS a good hospital. Of course in those days there was no such thing as "healthcare unions". That has been one of the major things to cause the system to go to ratcrap!!