RE:RE:RE:The collapse of medical care in Canada - Part 2 You can move to Alberta with Sovereignty Act in hope for some protection from ottawa meddling or better yet, escape canada for your financial and physical health.
mrbb wrote: that's what we get when something is free, system will get abused. Yes, it's free and great but you're dying to get it. Our healthcare system is so old and broken and resist structural change, people don't bother see their family doctor (if they bother to get one) but rather opt for emergency ward for every health issue. Meanwhile, politicians scares the bejesus out of voters on privatization by using USA as an example instead of many successful private healthcare worldwide. Politicans resist change to keep vote while big corporate medicare management get job and funding security. My provincial health minister salary is $364k/year plus $228k bonus for making extra media appearance due to covid. Nice gig if you can get one. Their job isn't to make healthcare cheaper, more efficient, give us right advice. Rather, they just repeat the message of canada health minister. take the jab, wear mask, social distancing. The whole canada healthcare system is bloated with high price admins and redtapes. Until we dare to accept a more free market system (like other insurance business), more public money thrown at healthcare would not improve a thing but get more bloated and more redtape.
MigraineCall wrote: Canadian health care is brutal. They will make you will wait till you are dead.
Hips are on sale at private hospitals in Thailand here for about $4000 CAD. Some friends have had great success, no waiting. All modern hospitals.
Blood tests? $2
Had a broken rib from a dirt bike ride. Xrays, exam, ultrasound, and pain killers $22, no waiting.
My rear molar dental implant is about $1400.
I don't even have medical insurance anymore as medical is so cheap.
For only about $25,000, I think they can even bring you back from the dead.
Obscure1 wrote: My wife needed hip replacement surgery. The wait was going to be 2 years. I took my wife to the doctor every Monday for 3 weeks telling him that we were going to have to go to the States because of the nonsense here in Ontario. I insisted that he order a new set of xrays.
I also called the surgeon's office every week with the same message. What happened? The wife got the surgery in less than 2 months from when I started my full court press. I guess that is what it takes.
On Tuesday, she is feeling sluggish so I take her to see her doctor. He looks at her blood haemoglobin levels and says go to Emeg immediately which we do. Ten hours later, the Emerg doc says her haemoglobin level is low but not quite low enough to meet the requirement for a blood transfusion, but if she waits another 4 hours or more, they could give her an iron infused IV but it wouldn't do much.
So, 10 hours sitting in Emerg for something that could have been done in an hour. The bottom line is that the hospitals are so badly under funded that unless you arrive at Emerg via EMS, you are going to sit for the better part of a day to get in to see a doc and then that is when the real wait begins.
So we head back home at 2am and my wife was pisssed.
We haven't talked in the 3 days since we left the hospital. I didn't want to interrupt