TZ at Heart Of Canada, on Canada’s health care safety seive;
For example, in some Canadian provinces, if you don’t pay health premiums, you don’t get health care. In other provinces, you don’t have to pay health premiums, but you still don’t get health care, well, unless you travel a few hundred miles first. Provincial health insurance cards are not always honoured in other provinces’ health care facilities, where only cash produces results. Ah, Canada.
In the United States, I always got health care, and some of it was free. My physicians sent me thank you notes and had welcoming open houses once per year for their patients. You see, experience can tell a very different story. I now wonder, if I were living in the USA today, would I have had the insurance necessary to cover my present needs, and, based on past experience, I would say, probably, yes.
The real problems arise when you actually have to access the Canadian system for surgery.
My MRI report was that I had a herniated disc in my back. My doc told me if I decided on an operation to let him know soon. It would take a year to get an appointment with a specialist and who knows how long for surgery. My doctor is new so he hasnt established his specialist “Network” yet. He told me my previous doctor could probably get me in sooner.
Luckily for now I can live with the little discomfort, but I feel for TZ and anyone else that needs quick help. Some equal access.
Equally bad access, I’d say.
It’s about the same in the U.K. from my experience when I was over there. You walk into a hospital and it’s like you’re suddenly in the Third World. A British friend of mine broke his thumb; the whole hand turned black, it looked really terrible. But after we sat in a half-lit waiting room where I kept expecting to see rats scurrying along the baseboard for half the afternoon, he gave up and left without treatment.
Socialism governments take control of the provision of goods and services, and shortages and rationing result. If it happens when governments control really simple products such as bread and shoes then no one should be surprised when it happens in a really complicated service like health care.
Has anyone ever seen a dirty, crowded private dentist’s office?