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My experience is completely different. I'm in Canada and the ER wait lists are usually a couple of hours. I'm also seeing a specialist in Toronto for procedures
by magnamerc 7y ago
My experience is completely different. I'm in Canada and the ER wait lists are usually a couple of hours. I'm also seeing a specialist in Toronto for procedures requiring image guided sclerotherapy. I bet I'd be fighting tooth and nail with insurance companies to cover that sort of procedure, which would likely run in the 100s of thousands of dollars, yet here I am getting it for "free" no questions asked.
I've never once even thought about money or insurance at all when receiving healthcare and I couldn't imagine thinking about costs when I'm already worried about my health. Americans are delusional if they think their system is better.
- refurb 7y agoWhat makes you think Canadians don't need to battle for coverage? "Then I found out that this other country — which I thought had a healthcare system that was so superior to the U.S. — doesn't test for the tumour marker that saved my life, and doesn't cover this drug that is responsible for pushing my cancer into remission after traditional chemotherapy failed to do that."[1] [1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-friends-with-breast-cancer-1-has-coverage-for-costly-drug-the-other-forced-to-pay-1.4495123 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-...
- magnamerc 7y agoIt's not a perfect system, and of course cutting edge drugs take longer to get approved for coverage under pharmacare. This is an election issue, and it's very possible that we get national pharmacare coverage over the next few years, and cases like these are the driving force. The difference is that we as a country are willing to pay more taxes so that every single person gets drug coverage, and it's reasonable to expect that this will happen in the near future, even for expensive cutting edge drugs.