Why do people say health care is bad in Canada? it is not.?!
Question: if u have a bad illness you see a doctor fast. You only wait 2 or 3 weeks if is not serious here in the US u will die if you dont have health insrance. on the rich can have it not us poor. Go Canada. Oh i am a US born person live here and need good heath care.
Answers: if u have a bad illness you see a doctor fast. You only wait 2 or 3 weeks if is not serious here in the US u will die if you dont have health insrance. on the rich can have it not us poor. Go Canada. Oh i am a US born person live here and need good heath care.
It's just political brainwashing by folks who do not want any change in the U.S. health care system.
The health care system in the U. S. is a joke. I know, I live here and am speaking from experience.
Our health care system is controlled by corporations and corrupt politicians, who are getting wealthy off of what we have now. They want no change, and do not want us looking into any other systems.
Have you watched the movie Sicko by Michael Moore? It really makes Canada's health care system look so great! It's about the USA's health care and it's a excellent movie. Some Americans think that our country stinks just because we are Canadian...It's wacked!
It is excellent in Canada.. Americans want you to believe it is no good, but it is not true. Its excellent.
If it's Americans, then we're just jealous because you guys don't have to pay for healthcare like we do. I'm jealous!:)
I believe this rumor could have been started by American doctors and American med students who want to keep over charging us Americans. Making Canada's free health care look bad will make patients think that they're paying so high because the care is "superior."
I still love my country though:)
yup.
i live in canada and altho we've had some changes to our health care system, it is still one of the bests, as it takes care of everyone. no one needs to dye, because they just can't afford it.
we pay alot in taxes to cover everyone. and ppl will criticize what about the ppl that are too lazy to work or whatever and sitting on welfare
well, if you suddenly lost everything and your child got really sick, wouldn't u be glad u paid for everyone else too?
anyway..we now have longer lines to get serious operations done. my husband had an aneurysm, that was about to blow, it was past the normal size that they recommend operating on. he found out in march, and din't have it operated on until december. he even got pushed back because someone came in with heart blockages. aneurysms are considered artery not heart.
anyway, glad to say he's doing fine, and i'm glad because 8 months later he had to go for a triple bipass and another aneurysm surgury, and i din't have to pay anything.
and i twas hard enough because he was out of work for so long we ended up on social assistance. but now we're both working and contributing to the system that saved his life.
So move to Canada, do you live close? You can just cross over and find a friend to say you live with them and go! Or try this webbie. Good Luck!!
It's not so much that health care in Canada is bad, the MODEL is. It does result in rationed care and the system IS going broke:
"Comparing Canada with other industrialized countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that provide universal access to health care, a study released by The Fraser Institute in May revealed that Canada spends more on its system than other nations while ranking among the lowest in several key indicators, such as access to physicians, quality of medical equipment, and key health outcomes.
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In 1999, Richard F. Davies, MD, described how delays affected Ontario heart patients scheduled for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. In a single year, for this one operation, 71 patients died before surgery and another "121 were removed from the list permanently because they had become medically unfit for surgery;" 44 left Ontario and had their CABG elsewhere, such as in the USA. In other words, 192 people either died or were too sick to have surgery before they worked their way to the front of the waiting line.
One of the reasons Canadians are slow to acknowledge the problems with their system is that general practitioners have been relatively easy to access and reasonably efficient at providing everyday services for common complaints, such as colds, sprains, aches and pains.
As time passes, however, more and more Canadians are confronted by the halting quality of their system when they face complex and expensive medical problems. They often cannot get timely or appropriate care for bone fractures, prompt treatment for cancer, or non-emergency surgery such as hip replacements. Their doctors complain that they are unable to help them and the government pleads shortage of funds.
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Canadian physician frustration with their inability to provide quality and timely care is resulting in a brain drain. According to one poll, one in three Canadian doctors is considering leaving the country. A doctor shortage looms, as the nation falls 500 doctors a year short of the 2,500 new physicians it needs to add each year to meet national health needs, according to Sally Pipes, a policy expert formerly with the Canadian Fraser Institute.
Another casualty of the lengthy waiting periods is Canada's much-vaunted equal access to medical treatment. Even though medical emergencies allow some people to jump ahead in the waiting line