1) Provincial Level Health Care and Federal Level Health Care
No. That doesn't make any sense. That's already how every healthcare system in the world works.
2) The Choice between government care or privatized Care
It's this.
This! Next time you make a thread about a topic, might want to at least know what the topic actually means first.
The Hospital ended up putting him in the waiting room for 24 hours before calling him in.
And just as he was making his way to the room his appendix burst, which made the staff have to rush big time.
Uh... Emergency room staff =/= general practitioners =/= other specialists. There are over two hundred different specializations in medicine. If your father's appendix burst while he was in the waiting room, they would have rushed him to the emergency room regardless of whether or not he had an appointment for it because that is an immediately life threatening injury. Like, not to downplay waiting lists, but, not every doctor is the same, and people aren't usually left on waiting room floors to die, if they're obviously dying.
I think I just built up a tolerance to it, because when I think about (like when typing this out) I can feel some of it coming back again.
It's not life threatening, so yes, you're getting put on a waiting list. Also, if the pain was serious (ex: tumour), it wouldn't have just gone away over the years, so, you probably grew out of it. I know I used to have some nasty ass migraines when I was a child that persisted through my teen years, but faded over time. I haven't had a migraine in years now.
Canada is 28th, United States is 32nd. Please, in the future, before you state something as fact like this, google it.
Because the reason we have lower quality is because all the best doctors to go America for the big cash.
The US has a higher infant mortality rate.
Canadians have longer lifespans on average than Americans.
Mortality due to "medical misadventures" are higher in the US than in Canada.
Which creates this humorous if it wasn't so sad situation where it's not just American's suffering from the USA's stubbornness with health care. XD
A'ight, okay, I mean, I'm not the best educated on US politics, but, a good place you might want to start looking, is
here, with John Oliver. Mainly because he explains it better than I possibly can, what the real issue is. It's not that the entirety of the US is against better healthcare, it's that
certain political assholes who run on an agenda are fucking it up at the state-level in ways which the federal level cannot combat. States have more power in the US than provinces do in Canada. US power is more decentralized, Canadian power is more centralized. There's cons and benefits to both systems, but that's a topic for another time.
So, I mean, next time you wanna bash on the US, there's plenty of reasons to do so. Blacks being beaten by cops, a blatantly broken political system that enforces a two-party system with no real choices for voters, et cetera, but, the medical issues are more political than anything else. If it weren't for how fucking choked in bureaucracy the entire system was, they would have one of the best run, best funded medical systems in the world. (And really, that should come as no surprise. Their total GDP output is nearly equal that of the entire European Union. They should, by all rights, fuck Canada in the ass without lube in medical superiority, but they often don't, because the Republicunt party is run by ideologically radicalized, insane assholes.)
But if we were to make it local?
Even more Doctors would go for the big green's by being privatized because now they can do it from home.
Which could end up creating an even bigger waiting list for those who rely on state care.
If we were to make it local? Assuming we didn't go full retard and unleash it with no regulations at all? We'd have... Drum roll... The current Canadian dental system. No, really. Our dental system is entirely privatized. Orthodontics too. In fact...
"The Canada Health Act does not cover prescription drugs, home care or long-term care, prescription glasses or dental care, which means most Canadians pay out-of-pocket for these services or rely on private insurance."
In some sense, we already have a certain level of two-tiered care. For example, in British Columbia, there is something called
Plan-G, which allows those who cannot afford psychiatric medicine (which is covered by prescription drugs) access to subsidized psychiatric medicine.
Logically, if it were phased in, one would highly regulate it and tax the shit out of it, for the purposes of using said tax money to then fund and expand the public healthcare system. IE: Rich person pays to skip line, pays exorbitant fees, some of those fees go to public healthcare, which buys more medicine, more beds, and pays more doctors.
Also, it would decrease strain on the public healthcare system, as less people would use it, but it would remain about as funded as it is now. Atop that, it would create a demand for jobs in all of the provinces (for both the private and public sectors), which would drive educated people to
immigrate to Canada for jobs, considering most of the world is in an economic downturn. Especially since we'd have a private healthcare system that would willingly pay higher than the public system, that would draw in more doctors from abroad. Basically: When there's an economic void, let supply and demand take its course. It's one of the most effective and constant tools in Capitalism to correct a problem, like in cases of manpower.
A rather well off place (though boring), but it's been getting a huge rush of rich people looking to retire, or buying a ton of land only to build monster houses on them.
If Privatized Health Care were to come to Canada, I can see a lot of those Doctors making a decent living off of those rich folk in Oakville alone.
Meanwhile neighbouring towns like Hamilton and Brampton, well known for being a lot more poverty struck, not as safe, higher crime rates etc.
They're people would probably get the shaft from Doctors because now they'd be switching to the richer towns.
Or, and bare with me here, the people of Oakville would pay into the private health care system, instead of using the public system. Meaning more public system spots are available for poor people, meaning shorter waiting lists. Atop that, the
taxed private system's taxes can go to fund and upgrade the existing public healthcare in those areas, thus making them better able to handle an influx of poor people.
The biggest issue with a two-tiered system is that we have a very shitty way of handling prescription and psychological care, which would be exacerbated by adding a private system into the mix. Especially with prescription medication, since private health industry folks can copyright life saving medicine and keep the patent to themselves for upwards of 20 years, making mad bank off of it at absurd prices, which is the current situation in the US. It's part of what's feeding their obscene suicide rate: A lot of people can't afford antidepressants and choose suicide as the way out.
Anyway, figured I'd go and correct a bunch of stuff about the Canadian healthcare system. Thanks for reading.