Canada's health care system...?!


Question: Canada's health care system!.!.!.!?
So why has the health care system that used to be so world renowned become so bad!? Crazy wait times, no doctors, people dying needlessly!.
I've heard so many things!.!.!. doctor's are going to the states, strict limits on # of docs in each town, blah blah blah!. Besides the government wanting to privatise it, what the heck is going on!?
Any thoughts on ways to fix it!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
I'll always remember the bill I got when my daughter was born!. She spent two weeks in the NICU in Hamilton, ON and the bill was over $100,000!. Now, that may seem like a lot if there were life saving measures that were needed but that was not the case!. She was required to be in the NICU because she required a "long line IV" and the regular ward in our home town hospital could not administer it properly!.
That was all!.

On the bill was a charge for defibrillators, for dialysis equipment, heart monitors and a whole host of other equipment that we know were never used on her!. We know that because for the two weeks either my wife or I were present in the NICU with her for vertually the whole time!.

Our insurance company as well as OHIP paid the bill so I wasn't overly concerned however when I called the hospital to question some of the charges I was told that they charge everyone in the NICU with those items because "if [they] didn't then they would not be able to afford to have them there for the people who did need them and those people would not be able to pay for their use"!. Sounds like a scam to me but the hospitals are able to get away with it!.

10 babies in the NICU who don't need a piece of equipment means that it's being paid for 10 times over for nothing!. No wonder our system is losing money hand over fist!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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