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Originally Posted by Zarley
It seems like many of you are overrating the quality of healthcare in Canada. Our system is adequate, but not really that great.
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Maybe a good place to plug our most recent report:
https://secure.cihi.ca/estore/produc...=en&pf=PFC3385
From my own perspective:
Generally speaking, Canada is in the middle of the pack for Health Care compared with other peer countries.
Health Care quality is generally really good, WHEN a patient has access to it.
That's the rub, access continues to be an issue with our health care system, despite being one of the highest spending countries on healthcare.
From the summary, Canada does well in:
- Stroke mortality
- Perceived Health status
- Avoidable Asthma
Where improvements are needed:
- Access to care, especially with specialist
- Patient safety - hot button topic, a lot of work going on to improve this
- Obesity
Anyways, with the access issue, I can sympathize and understand why people need to go abroad to get health care
LChoy