Comment by OsrsNeedsf2P
2 days ago
One of the reasons I left Canada was it took me 6 months to get an MRI after a severe head injury in 2017. I have since gladly paid nearly 500k in taxes to other countries. Fuck Canada.
2 days ago
One of the reasons I left Canada was it took me 6 months to get an MRI after a severe head injury in 2017. I have since gladly paid nearly 500k in taxes to other countries. Fuck Canada.
If I were waiting that long I’d fly to SE Asia. I got one in Cambodia same week for $1200.
Multiple times in Southern California I’ve gotten an mri for like $350-400 next day, in a 3T machine with Simonmed.
You can easily find MRI in the US for less than half of that. Though a trip to SE Asia sounds nice.
Clearly you had the means... was it not possible to pay for private healthcare?
No, that's illegal. Thats what single payer means, only one payer is allowed [1].
Is meant to encourage rich people to support the health system since everyone's in it. But in reality the very wealthy go to Buffalo and immigrants visit their home countries.
It's also not lost on public policy experts that MAID has the potential of "solving" a lot of structural problems in Canadian health care and... long and behold MAID has expanded tremendously in ten years.
[1] with some exceptions largely grandfathered in
That's not what single payer actually means, since Australia has both a single payer public system and a separate private system. The part that allows these to both exist is that the public system has vast resources (i.e. an entire national/set of state governments) that can act as one for immense negotiating power. This does not preclude a private system from existing.
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It's not meant to "encourage the rich to support" the health system, it's meant to avoid completely gutting the public health system by creating a parallel pay-for-play system where only the richest pay and subsequently suck up all of the already finite resources and talent.
Introducing parallel private health care is just accelerationism for privatization wonks who want to just see the death of universal healthcare by sucking it dry for those willing to pay.
There's no magic wand with the resources available for healthcare. Creating private systems so rich people can skip the line doesnt magically create that capability, it means taking that capability from someone who maybe needed it more in the public side of things.
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Not how it works in the UK, everyone pays into public single-payer healthcare, but you’re free to buy your own private healthcare on top if you like.
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Medical imaging and diagnostic testing is one of services allowed by private healthcare in Canada.
> Diagnostic Testing: Private labs and clinics provide quicker access to diagnostic tests such as MRI scans, blood tests, and X-rays, which can expedite treatment plans.
https://schwartzcohenlaw.com/does-canada-offer-private-healt...
There are private clinics like Medcan, which you can pay for checkups, referrals, etc., so it's not all single payer. You usually end up in the same queue for MRIs though, so it doesn't help there.
> But in reality the very wealthy go to Buffalo
This has to be a brand new sentence (post 1950s anyway).
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For ~90% of the population, it’s right there under 200km away.
What does that have to do with the conversation here?
Some countries have a dual insurance system that might allow wealthier people to get better access.
Think of Steve Jobs jumping to the head of the line for a liver transplant
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