If socialized medicine is so much better than our system in America, Why is it that many Canadians still come?

Question

here for major surgery?

Answer 1

link please

Answer 2

I have family members in Canada who are nurses, and I've known many, many Canadians who have never had a single problem with being misdiagnosed, long waits, or any of that garbage. Everyone in America wants our system to be the best, and honestly, it isn't. Some parts of it are good, but mostly, it's money making. I would ask yourself this: if the American health care system is so much better, how come we're one of the only countries doing it?

Answer 3

We pay $ 96.00 a month for medicare hospital free. I feel on the street rushed to the ER 8 hours in hospital x rays lab work a meal free taxi home. Also have had angioplasty and Angio gram no charge There is ashortage of doctors Medicare sets a fee Some doctors Dont like beeing told how much thery can charge

Answer 4

Can't speak for Canadians, but I do have a Canadian friend who does complain about slow and inept treatment of her children. Likes the lower cost of socialized medicine, until tax time comes around!! And she has to pay her "share" without getting service equal to her taxation.

I have a friend in England who was under socialized medicine, again loves the low price but...she nearly lost her younger son because the doctors didn't take time to diagnose him properly, (too many patients coming in to talk about stubbed toes and so on), and could not understand why he was getting worse and worse...finally decided he was too brain-damaged to treat anymore. But she got to a different doctor, after much difficulty, and he found a vision problem, rare one, did the corrections, and the kid is now happy and responsive and smart.

One of the damgers of no motive to really check out uncommon problems...pays the same whether you kill or cure the patients.

Answer 5

Funny, the Canadians don't see it that way.
My husband is in Canada three times a week and he brings me the Canadian papers, they think we are nuts.
Sure some types of surgery are done here, we have the equipment and specialists that a much smaller country just doesn't need enough of to make cost efficient, that's what people from other countries come here for special treatment.
But every other industrialized country on the planet, not just Canada, has some form of caring for its citizens, we are the only ones with a sink or swim attitude. We are also the only ones with cans set up in QuickieMarts to pay for some kids cancer treatment.

Answer 6

Socialised medicine permits the POSSIBILITY of equivalent medical health for ALL citizens: the U.S. system only provides for those able to pay.
Thus the rich are able to have excellent health whilst the less fortunate suffer ill health which leads to greater welfare dependency and communal burden. Hence socialised medicine is actually communally cheaper.

Where socialised medicine fails is in administrative bureaucratic delivery and the unrestrained money focus -- profiteering -- by medical fraternities.The U.S. system ONLY offers SPEED of accessibility to care for the financially capable -- not necessarily QUALITY as evidenced by the disproportionate rate of successful malpractice/ mal-administration/ inappropriate care legal cases prosecuted.

Medical tourism takes place in many countries -- with variable results -- but is only available to the (comparatively) wealthy.
The current indictment movie, "Sicko", covers old ground -- it's nothing new. To quote a world pre-eminent surgeon and anaesthetist I know from 25 years ago "If you want to get sick, don't do it in America."

Answer 7

The *few* Canadians who are coming over the border (not just to the US, but other countries as well--it's called surgical tourism) for medical care are those who can afford the high-priced procedures; they just want them faster than might be allowed by the Canadian system.

Answer 8

The few that do do so because they are wealthy and in canada the wealthy don't get better healthcare than everyone else like they do here in the US. Here in the US the best healthcare goes to the highest bidder, not the most needy. So inpatient rich canadians feel right at home here.

Answer 9

Are you truly that dumb? perhaps because the yank market is way more advantageous, there are three hundred million human beings in a advanced united states compared to 30 million in a advanced united states. which may you %.? Canada would not suck, that's in easy words dwarfed by technique of the USA.

Answer 10

If socialized medicine is so bad why don't the voters in Canada or any other country that has it, vote to get rid of it? They are all democracies.

Answer 11

What makes you think the cannuks have to come to the U S that women in Alberta traveled 450 mi to Montana to have her 5 kids because.....No beds available,...means nothing..We have something you don't and it's free!! The 'yanks' spend so much on military Why ,when they can give it to us or them