As a Canadian, who works full time dealing with a major American insurance company, I'd take my wait to see a specialist any day over the circus American's call health care, because you're getting gouged on all ends. The insurance companies have all these foolish, and arbitrary, “pre-existing conditions,” and they're going to make you jump through hoops obtaining “authorizations” for medical services like surgeries, physical/occupational/chiropractic therapies, and depending on your plan they're going to tell you who you can see. What they don't tell you is that they're cashing in on the ignorance of most of their members, who don't realize they need to authorize services, etc.
Your hospitals and doctors on the other hand have very little in place telling them what they can and can't charge. Depending on whether or not you have insurance, you'll see two drastically different prices. Your insurance company pays more, which in turn increases the premiums, and really, in the long run, you don't save very much money.
Thanks, but if having a health care system that tells doctors “No, you can't charge whatever you feel like for services,” and is founded on the principle that all people are equal and therefore deserve the same care (rather than the affluent receiving better care because they can afford it) is socialism, gods damn it… I'll keep it, even if it means a longer wait for non-urgent services! You know your system is broken when your doctors talk to the Canadians that we have a better system, and I have had that very same conversation more than once.
Chat: Kanada vs USA – Slaggprodukter
As a Canadian, who works full time dealing with a major American insurance company, I'd take my wait to see a specialist any day over the circus American's call health care, because you're getting gouged on all ends. The insurance companies have all these foolish, and arbitrary, “pre-existing conditions,” and they're going to make you jump through hoops obtaining “authorizations” for medical services like surgeries, physical/occupational/chiropractic therapies, and depending on your plan they're going to tell you who you can see. What they don't tell you is that they're cashing in on the ignorance of most of their members, who don't realize they need to authorize services, etc.
Your hospitals and doctors on the other hand have very little in place telling them what they can and can't charge. Depending on whether or not you have insurance, you'll see two drastically different prices. Your insurance company pays more, which in turn increases the premiums, and really, in the long run, you don't save very much money.
Thanks, but if having a health care system that tells doctors “No, you can't charge whatever you feel like for services,” and is founded on the principle that all people are equal and therefore deserve the same care (rather than the affluent receiving better care because they can afford it) is socialism, gods damn it… I'll keep it, even if it means a longer wait for non-urgent services! You know your system is broken when your doctors talk to the Canadians that we have a better system, and I have had that very same conversation more than once.
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