The Canadian healthcare system, while not quite as bad as Cuba’s, is not what any American would want to experience. The basis for all socialized medicine (call it single payor or anything else) is delay and deny. It is not unusual for a Canadian, once diagnosed with cancer, to wait six months to see the oncologist.
That works really well for holding the costs down because once the patient waits six months, it is often too late to do anything for them. It’s basically a form of triage, without having to make the critical decision of who to treat, the delay tactic makes the decision for them.
The Canadian health care system is like all socialized health care... sure everyone has care.. but you better not get crtically ill, or you can enjoy waiting for treatment.
I had a guy griping about the 30k bill for his wife when she was diagnosed with cancer.. she’s still alive because she immediately got in with an oncologist and was agressively treated. Had he lived in a socialized medicine state, true he would not have a 30k bill to pay, but most likely his wife would have died waiting for treatment... but don’t bother pointing that fact out to him....Sigh
Public Education continues to dumb down this nation.
I have been RVing in Canada for the last 3 weeks. The TV fair in RV parks is CBC or CBC and CTV. Last night they ran a story about a person in dire need of an MRI. The waiting list placed him/her (don’t recall the sex) out 10 to 12 months. In the mean time, a veterinarian said a dog needing an MRI to diagnose a possible illness would be taken in that afternoon.
He stated that the reason for the disparity was that Canada has a single payer (government) system and the vet could take private insurance or personal funding.
This was on state TV and I have not yet seen a day that the health system of Canada was not disparaged by the people of Canada and substantiated by the media.