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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby OP 22 Mar \ parent \ on: Canadians Financially Stretched charts_and_numbers

Is it so great?

Yeah it is. People just dont get healthcare here because they cant afford it.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby OP 23 Mar

I disagree but maybe I am biased because in the US my wife's dad was on an operating table two weeks after his cardiologist determined he needed a pacemaker and here in Canada my dad needed to wait 6 months just to get an MRI to determine he had Parkinsons and my wife needs to wait up to 15 months to have a surgery for a growth that might become cancerous. So pardon me if I am kind of sour on socialized medicine right now.

60 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 23 Mar

Hhhmm... I guess it depends on your case and experience. For the majority, l think being able go afford care is important. No system is perfect.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby OP 23 Mar

Would definitely agree with that.

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 23 Mar

But there is one thing l realized with universal healthcare. There are a lot of people that bog up the system for common things like a cold. Thats what really slows the system down.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 23 Mar

Yes this is true. Many years ago I used to manage a retail drug store (what would be similar to CVS in US) and we had a doctor's office connected to the store and so a lot of the patients would shop in the store while they waited to get called for their appointment. It was good for business but it also used to create a lot of crowding and people loitering in the areas near the doctors office. I was talking to the doctor one day and he said many of the patients he saw didn't need to go to the doctor they just went because it was "free". So if they had a cold they went to the doctor. Sore knee, they go to the doctor.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 23 Mar

Yeah, its was like that in Taiwan. They should just have teledoctors who prescribe cold medicine. Its such a drag on the system for the patients that actually need help. Taiwan has the highest rate of kidney failure because it prescribes medicine to anyone and everyone.