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Originally posted by fotze@May 18 2005, 07:43 PM
My wife is from the states, and she has noted that the level of care here is a little lower here, but once again you don't pay through the T**s to get it.
Her family friend from Denmark who is a nerosurgeon has a child with bouts of unexplained paralysis. He is taking him to the states for better care. So in conclusion, who knows about US and Canada, but one things for sure Denmark's system is fataed. This now ends this pointless story of mine.
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Without a doubt i have found the health care in the USA and the UK better than Canada. This is solely because i had private health insurance. I had hernia surgery in the UK....i picked the time of my surgery down to the hour.....and only had to wait 1 week. My MRI in the US was again booked one week in advance.
I think there are ways to improve the Canadian health system without throwing a bunch of money at it and without privatized healthcare (although i would like to see some privatization). Inefficient costs could be stripped out by getting rid of duplication at the provincial level (Why do you need a health authority for each province?). Buy drugs and machines at the national level in order to improve purchasing power. Get the governments out of the business of running the day to day operations of hospitals.