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Quote:I mostly meet or hear of Canadians who are escaping the Canada Healthcare to obtain life-saving medical treatment in USA we which they are denied in Canada.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I know three Canadians personally (all in Ontario) and one online in BC, and I would define their healthcare as somewhere between average (like Kaiser HMO) and stellar.
I think the problem with Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and PEI is that they're rural, and poor, and doctors keep migrating out of those areas to the richer provinces and big cities
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Quote:I mostly hear of Canadians who come to the USA to get elective procedures performed.
I mostly meet or hear of Canadians who are escaping the Canada Healthcare to obtain life-saving medical treatment in USA we which they are denied in Canada.
I didn't get a chance to post earlier .... the truest comparisons between USA and Canadian healthcare systems are
1) If you're going to compare a poor rural province in Canada with the USA, make sure that you compare PEI, Nova Scotia, or Newfoundland with some place in backwoods Appalachia.
2) Number of uninsured. Speaks for itself.
3) Health outcomes. Are Canadians less healthy, dying at an earlier age, or suffering from disease at a higher rate than Americans?
4) Cost to the economy. "Health care" in the USA takes up somewhere in the realm of 18% of GDP on healthcare, meanwhile in Canada overall expenditures on health care are about 11%.
Individual stories are interesting and point up specific problems, but if you want to know what's going on you need to expand your scope.
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