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#1 Jun 25 2004 at 8:28 AM Rating: Decent
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Mybe I haven't done my 'homework', but,

If healthcare is free in Canada, who funds the medicines and machinery and pays the doctors?

Is being a doctor up there as well paying and prestigious as it is in the States?




I think we would NEVER EVER EVER have free HealthCare here. There is too much buisness based on it and too many pockets getting lined.

Just further shows waht the priorities are.
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#2 Jun 25 2004 at 9:32 AM Rating: Good
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Healthcare is not technically "free" here. Healthcare premiums are paid, by one's employer if they have benefit coverage, by oneself if there is no coverage or by government subsidies if one can't afford to pay premiums. This is sort of like insurance, you ( or your employer) pay an amount every three months and your healthcare costs are covered. For instance, I am having an ultrasound in two weeks, but it is free to me because I have health care coverage from work.

Prescriptions drugs are not covered through health care premiums. Most employers will include drug costs in their benefits package and there are private companies which will also do this, for a monthly fee, of course. This means that if you are not employed by a company that pays drug benefits, and cannot afford to have a private company cover you, you have to pay for prescriptions yourself.

So, really the up-side is that anyone can become suddenly ill and have to go in hospital and not worry about racking up huge hospital bills. Even if they have no drug or health coverage, there are great subsidy programs in place to help pay for services. Taxpayers foot a good deal of the bill - because the jist is equal coverage for all.

Being a doctor in Canada is a very well-paid profession, but it's the same as anywhere in that specialist get more cash than GPs.
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#3 Jun 25 2004 at 9:43 AM Rating: Decent
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So basically the "middle-man" being the insurance companies are cut out of the picture.
(insurance companies that raise rates and sit back a bleed you dry while you're suffering)

interesting.

god I hate .... stuff

Edited, Fri Jun 25 10:45:01 2004 by Kelvyquayo
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#4 Jun 25 2004 at 9:49 AM Rating: Good
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We have tremendously long waiting times for health care services here in Canada. My father had to wait almost a year to have a hip replacement operation, while his hip joint was essentially worn away to nothing. It's probably the largest complaint that most people have about the healthcare system in Canada. In the States, if you have the cash, you can pay to get your business done. Here we have to wait.

So, you don't have it ALL bad. =)

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#5 Jun 25 2004 at 9:53 AM Rating: Decent
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Is the wait for paperwork to process or is it just a matter of 'waiting your turn' to see the doc? MAybe you need more doctors up there.. but they all came here to reap the rewards of capitalism.

I'm like Baron von Munchhausen anyway: "no doctors"
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#6 Jun 25 2004 at 10:01 AM Rating: Good
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We definately need more doctors. The wait is because there aren't enough doctors, too many patients and not enough hospitals.

So it goes....

I just try not to get sick. Smiley: wink2

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#7 Jun 25 2004 at 10:13 AM Rating: Decent
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I wonder if a Global healthcare system would work.. and how..
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#8 Jun 25 2004 at 10:15 AM Rating: Good
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Hmmm..I think it would be faaaaarrr too complicated. Each country has specific needs and a global system would struggle to meet them, IMO. Look how complicated it is in each individual country already and then imagine what the Europeans, or Africans or Tibetans etc. might expect or need. Zoiks.



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#9 Jun 25 2004 at 10:54 AM Rating: Good
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Nope, as nice as it sounds the econimical gap and sheer population differences between the US and many of the poorest nations is so huge that even if we paid 110% of our incomes to healthcare there would not be enough resources to give everyone the same level of care. We are having a hard enough time establishing a countrywide healthcare system. And even the poorest of US citizens are 100s of times better off than the poorest citizens of most third world nations.
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#10 Jun 25 2004 at 11:30 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm sure the Vatican could pay for it all.
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#11 Jun 25 2004 at 12:26 PM Rating: Decent
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I wonder if a Global healthcare system would work.. and how


It's called the WHO. It works pretty well, actually.
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#12 Jun 25 2004 at 12:29 PM Rating: Good
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I think he meant in the "gets free prescriptions and hospital beds a-plenty" sense.
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Ahh. I was thinking in the "eradicating playge like diseases that kill millions of people" sense :)
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Ahh. I was thinking in the "eradicating playge like diseases that kill millions of people" sense :)


Just to mess with you Smash, name 2 diseases that they have eradicated in the last 10 years and did either of those disease's kill millions?
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In the last 10 years? That's like saying name a wonder of the world that's been built in the last twenty minutes. Eradicating diseases isn't easy.

However, without the WHO, Ebola may very well have killed nearly everyone in Ziare.
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#16 Jun 25 2004 at 2:45 PM Rating: Decent
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so now Aids will.
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