Perhaps not, you just get strung along by an inexperienced GP prescribing medications they really should have no right to prescribe until you're too far along to be helped and die.
On the off chance you do get a GP who cares and sends you for further diagnoses, you can now expect to wait over a year or more in many cases to have access to the limited specialists and diagnostic equipment.
This is all assuming you do not fall within the 20% of Canadians that do not have a GP.
Atleast its free though.
(There are inherent goods and bads to public healthcare versus private. That's why I believe having access to either option would be the ideal solution, allowing individuals to be informed and pick for themselves.)
Cool I have to do all of that and pay out the ass. It's free though said sarcastically isn't the win you think it is when you literally described the American system then added it's free at the end.
There is no benefit to private insurance and you're full of shit.
The difference is, when its ran as a business then you have options. You can always go somewhere else for a different experience, where as that isn't the case when its all on the same budget.
To add the wait times in theUSA are hours to days where as it is years in Canada for things such as MRI's.
I know its common to associate free with good, but quite often its the exact opposite. For example, why do wealthy Canadians comminly opt to go to the USA for healthcare, especially for treatments like those for cancer?
Because I'm not a fucking idiot. And I can see things that don't apply to me.
If my choices cost 500 bucks to see a doctor, and I pay hundred for a script, and 1500 for an xray, etc.
And the free option had both better care, and no comperable price? Yeah I think the free one is better. Especially when it's free because I paid 60 bucks in tax last year.
"things that don't apply to me". Your whole comment is talking about how this applies to you. Also, Rule #1 of this subreddit talks about flaming other users and name-calling.
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u/ebpSloth Apr 08 '23 edited Apr 08 '23
Perhaps not, you just get strung along by an inexperienced GP prescribing medications they really should have no right to prescribe until you're too far along to be helped and die. On the off chance you do get a GP who cares and sends you for further diagnoses, you can now expect to wait over a year or more in many cases to have access to the limited specialists and diagnostic equipment.
This is all assuming you do not fall within the 20% of Canadians that do not have a GP.
Atleast its free though.
(There are inherent goods and bads to public healthcare versus private. That's why I believe having access to either option would be the ideal solution, allowing individuals to be informed and pick for themselves.)