It isn’t always exaggerated but generally lacks context.
Some types of surgery can have long wait times if they are non life threatening but can drastically improve quality of life which is very very frustrating.
The thing they ignore though is that most people waiting could not afford the surgery at all in a private system. Most people in Canada live very close to the border and American health care is more than willing to take their money.
It isn’t perfect and we should definitely be investing more in and trying to address problems but I don’t see how things like American HMOs are anything more then rent seekers.
I never meant to imply that there can’t be long wait times, just that they are, in my opinion, exaggerated. I have had to wait for things as well, but having experienced health care in the USA, I could not really complain.
Canada definitely could improved, but it’s still night and day better than what’s south of the border, imho.
I just said that I believe it could be improved. My bar is higher than the USA, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m thankful that it’s better than the USA, having experienced both. They are not mutually exclusive sentiments.
The only counter-argument I have to that is the common refrain among many politicians who used to point to the American system as superior, which has only really started to focus on some of the cheaper options per capita in Europe in the last decade.
It’s also exaggerated, in my experience.
It isn’t always exaggerated but generally lacks context.
Some types of surgery can have long wait times if they are non life threatening but can drastically improve quality of life which is very very frustrating.
The thing they ignore though is that most people waiting could not afford the surgery at all in a private system. Most people in Canada live very close to the border and American health care is more than willing to take their money.
It isn’t perfect and we should definitely be investing more in and trying to address problems but I don’t see how things like American HMOs are anything more then rent seekers.
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I never meant to imply that there can’t be long wait times, just that they are, in my opinion, exaggerated. I have had to wait for things as well, but having experienced health care in the USA, I could not really complain.
Canada definitely could improved, but it’s still night and day better than what’s south of the border, imho.
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I just said that I believe it could be improved. My bar is higher than the USA, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m thankful that it’s better than the USA, having experienced both. They are not mutually exclusive sentiments.
The only counter-argument I have to that is the common refrain among many politicians who used to point to the American system as superior, which has only really started to focus on some of the cheaper options per capita in Europe in the last decade.