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Originally Posted by CDSmith
I would advise stop thinking of it as "GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE"... we don't. There aren't private hospitals and "Government" ones up here. In Winnipeg for example we have seven major hospitals, all of varying sizes. A few specialize in certain things like cancer treatment, but all of them provide pretty excellent care.
Maybe a two-tier system would work in the US, I don't know.
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Canada is excellent for emergency care sure. I also lived in Canada
But the problem with both UK and Canadian system is the non-emergancy care.
I played soccer at a pretty decent level while in Canada and a guy in my team was suffering from crazy headaches. He begged and begged for an mri because everything they tried didn't work drug wise. He was on a waiting list for an mri for 5 months in ontario. The mri revealed he had been given all the drugs for no reason, and the problem was some weird abnormality in his neck / spine that was pushing on his brain giving him the headaches.
After 5 months waiting on the mri, his condition was upgraded to emergency and he had an operation which corrected the problem within a few days.
I am no fan of the US system for sure, but on the insurance plan we have currently there is no waiting. You get the referral fast from your doc and you arrange an appointment that week with the specialist / clinic.
When we move back to the UK first thing I will buy is additional private medical insurance for these kind of things.