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Originally Posted by curves2000
To flip the script, plenty of Canadian's die as a result of wait times that are excessive and past the point of medically necessity. All politicians in every province and all Prime Ministers have struggled to properly fund health care to match our needs and make meaningful improvements. Access to family Dr, surgery wait times, preventative medicine, long term care, facility upgrades and a lot more.
American medical CEO's should be charged but so should Canadian politicians for allowing the mess we are in ourselves. The US style system has some incredible benefits but also some sides that are downright dirty. Our Canadian system similar. When any sort of comparison should be made, it should be made to a hybrid system in other nations with substantially better options available to people. I think at last count from the Canadian Medical Ass. 25% of Canadian's waited longer than a year for elective surgery where a lot of EU countries was 0-4%? My numbers may be slightly off.
Just because Canada and the US have screwed things up for their people doesn't mean everybody else has. The fact that you and I can literally spend our money on whatever we want but are prevented in a lot of ways from accessing care quicker for a fee wither that be small or large is absurd and deeply unethical. In Canada we like to pretend that we don't ration healthcare due to budget limitations but we actually do. There is a long list of people who are actually ahead of normal people
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To counter, do many Canadian die due to wait times? If you go to ER and they find a hole in your heart, that gets tiraged pretty quick. Now you may have a bum hip and have to wait longer than if you paid a bazillion dollars to go to the states, but that's more discomfort than life threatening isn't it?
I'm not American so i dont know. Are people being denied surgery because they can't claim it or have they had the surgery already and cant claim it therefore having to pay the bill?