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Hank Rogers wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote: > > On 2021-04-30 4:11 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote: > >> On Friday, April 30, 2021 at 3:43:10 PM UTC-4, Michael Trew wrote: > > . > >>> I'm assuming you are talking about socialist health care like > >>> Canada or > >>> some European countries. Trust me, you'll pay for it in the end > >>> with > >>> higher taxes and/or lower quality health care. > >> > >> Would you rather have "lower quality health care" or none at all? > >> Now that there's no mandate to buy health insurance, are > >> you going to do without? > >> > >> The sort of national health program like they have in Canada is > >> pretty much just like commercial insurance, except the risk pool > >> is the entire country and it's not optional. The per-capita > >> cost is less than the U.S. pays: $5418 in Canada versus $10966 > >> in the U.S. And Canadians are not exactly dying in the streets. > >> The > >> life expectancy in Canada is 81.2 years, while it's 78 in the U.S. > >> > >> Faceless bureaucrats decide who gets care whether they work > >> for the government or for an insurance company. > > > > > > There has been lot of misinformation in the US about the Canadian > > health care system. They talk about how expensive it is, but as you > > pointed out, we pay less than Americans. The government spends > > less per capita on health care than the US government, and everyone > > is covered. We live longer. Wait times? They have been grossly > > exaggerated. We can thank the lobbyists for the for profit health > > care system for those lies. > > > > > Yes, Canada is wonderful! AMEN https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/...h-care-system/ Is Canada the Right Model for a Better U.S. Health Care System? 19 May 2017 [...] ....Still, there are some things we can learn by studying the Canadian system, Pauly argues. Number one, although in many ways the system looks like ours, the system has a much greater emphasis on primary care and less emphasis on specialist care and hospitalization, and on complex and costly procedures. And that probably contributes a lot to the lower spending [in Canada], because while primary care can be good for you, expensive procedures such as for cancer may add only a few months of life but cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pauly adds, Ordinary people in Canada are healthier than in the U.S., but outcomes for cancer and very serious illnesses are less good there. Its a great place to live as long as you dont get too sick, as one critic put it. Another fact that might dissuade Americans from duplicating the Canadian model, Pauly adds, is that Canadians have a longer waiting list for things like joint replacement, so if your hips are killing you in Canada, you may wait months for that [surgery] to happen. In the U.S., the orthopedic surgeons are calling you every day, wondering when you are going to come in for your joint replacement procedure. We probably do too many; they probably do too few. But the safety valve for Canada is that they can always come across the border, and have a procedure done here. </> |
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