West Coast states urged to join Canada
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Remember, the only reason Canadian health care isn't even worse, is because those who can afford to, go to the US so that they can get treated in a timely manner.
That's the case for almost all "socialized" medicine countries.
They get all their medical research done for them by the US, saving billions there, and then the rich just fly over to us our doctors anyway.
Like most things in the rest of the West, they can only have such "nice things" because big daddy USA is keeping them afloat in the background while they whine like the teenage girls they are about how much they hate us.
Ive read some countries, like finland have a pretty efficient system of both.
https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/en/about-us/healthcare-for-visitors-to-sweden/about-the-swedish-healthcare-system/
Shit man what I would do for something like this!!!
That is somewhat available in at least some areas of the US. My family pays a very low amount to a singular doctor's office for a "membership" that basically covers the cost of everything done in that office, and gives us priority access to visits (under 48 hours), and will then refer us to any specialist doctor for care above what they have which is then covered under our work insurances.
And we get to keep the same family doctor since we don't get passed around by "who's got the contract this year" so the guy knows us and will push through things for us.
I do think a lot of people have just accepted "its bad so it is what it is" and never truly explored the options available in a lot of America, because its often not as bad as it seems.
If Canadians didn't have the US, their health care would look like Britain.
A trip to Mars is how many minutes of NHS spending again?
I still remember Brits telling me it was a good thing their healthcare wait times were so long because it prioritized people into thinking about what they really needed. My brain broke from that.
Or, or, we could charge a fee, based on how much of a strain the service you want puts on the system.
Fuckin' retards.
If you don't discriminate by price, you must discriminate by something else. In this case, they Left chose discrimination by time.
I just read on reddit that someone was saying they couldn't cancel a dental appointment, even though they were sick, because at best they wouldn't be able to get another appointment for a year and at worst would be deregistered from their dentist and then have to spend 2 or 3 years to try find another NHS dentist.
Surely they were lying. I once saw a redditor post that they broke their leg, went to a hospital, got taken in immediately, got all fixed up, and left without paying a dime.
And because that one unverifiable post must be true, and because it only affected one person, then the entire NHS must be functioning properly and anyone who says otherwise is a liar and a literal hitler who thinks health care isn't a human right.
(/sarc, but I believe there are people out there who genuinely think like this.)