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The healthcare in the US still remains the worlds benchmark. The way we pay for it is a tangled mess.
Remember that in the US, it is illegal to deny anyone treatment based on ability to pay. Also, there is an enormous safety net for the poor. Medicaid/MediCal is truly amazing in the scope of care provided. An unemployed, uninsured MediCal patient will get a free hip replacement lots faster here than anywhere else in the world. Why? Because even though the system is messed up, doctors and hospitals are still incentivised to provide care.
Lastly, the absurdity of the Canadian health policy is offensive to most of us because we value freedom. Don't tell me what I can buy and what I can't. Purry's argument about MRI scans is erroneous. It is simply not the case that rich Canadians would over use a valuable MRI machine doing frivolous scans. What happens is a private company buys an MRI scanner and sells it's service to privately funded patients. No impact on the Canadian goverment at all. They can have as many MRI machines as they would like to purchase.
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My work here is nearly finished.
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