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Originally Posted by mykalberta
The difference is "you" dont get better care but that on average everyone gets slightly better care.
In Canada you go in to a centralized clinic location, wait a few hours to see the doctor that is working today say you have a tweaked back they tell you nothing they can do and just to get some rest. At most he prescribes some Tylenol 4 which you have to go to a different location to find a pharmacy and pay for it. And that is after waiting X hours to see the doctor.
In the US, you go to a clinic which is much closer to where you are, pay $135US and a doctor gives to a cortizone and morphine shot and you are out of the doctors office within 45 minutes total. 35 of those minutes are you grilling the doctor of the safety of the cortizone and morphine shot because your doctor in Canada never once suggested that after 10+ times of going to one yet in the US where you are on vacation that is the first thing he suggests.
And what do you know, for free you get the type of service you would expect with the price tag of free. And with $135 you get something completly different that actually solves your immediate problem and you wonder what everyone on American TV bitches about.
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You have a weirdly rosy view of the US health care system. Wait times in US urban centers are far longer than they are in Canada, and doctors are even more overworked.
Not to mention that it costs 700 dollars to get a doctor to put a boot on an ankle fracture. A cortisone injection will cost thousands if you're footing the bill. Most people pay only a portion of that, but they pay for it the rest of the year with their insurance premiums.
The U.S. health care system is more expensive than ours and has worse outcomes. I'm not sure this bill will fix that problem (I suspect it won't) but that's pretty much undeniable.