stjames1_53 (02-22-2017)
What is going on up, I think it's up, in Canada?
Do they still kill people in Canada? What the?
Sweet hissy fit.
What the hell is wrong with the President of Canada? Can't he do something?
I use to think highly of Canadians! Well, I still do, the people I know there are sane! Who is the crap we're seeing are they the same Left leg things we have here, do they talk to each other?
NapRover (03-20-2017)
While universal health care or single payer is federally funded in Canada, it is managed by the Provinces. There is also private health care for those who want to pay for it privately. Some of the issues wrt wait times involve the numbers of medical graduates in certain medical specialities and not in others. Other issues relate to shortages of family physicians thus overuse of the emergency departments of hospitals which funnel financial resources away from the purchase of medical equipment like MRI machines. The problem is not really a matter of health care being funded publically, it is a lack of coordination between the hospitals and the universities graduating the doctors creating wait times because of an insufficiency of graduates in certain medical specialties i.e. too many eye doctors, not enough orthopaedic surgeons.
Life-saving procedures are prioritized, so wait times tend to involve nonemergency health care like knee replacements. Medical outcomes overall between the US and Canada in terms of survival rates are pretty much the same, although Canada does it on a much smaller budget.
There is no President of Canada, it is a constitutional monarchy, thus there is a Prime Minister and a parliament.
Last edited by Dr. Who; 02-22-2017 at 07:27 PM.
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