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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Personal anecdote time:
My sister-in-law grew up in Saskatchewan, completed a graduate and post-graduate degree at UBC, and is now a tenured professor at a well-known and prestigious university in the US. She has first-hand experience with public healthcare in two Canadian provinces and private healthcare in America. Despite receiving an excellent insurance plan as a benefit of being a faculty member, she still has to pay for a portion of her insurance benefits. She claims she now pays more in taxes + private health insurance than she paid in taxes (a portion of which went to health coverage) while living in Canada. She also claims the quality of service is worse in the US.
That's just one person's story, so I advise you to take any anecdote with the appropriate grain of salt. Her experience is backed up by statistics, though. Comparative studies have shown that Canadian patients receive equal or better health outcomes than Americans with the same condition, and our single-payer non-profit system is significantly more cost-efficient.
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Her opinion is invalid as she is clearly a Liberal/Socialist