Universal Health Care Message to Americans From Canadian Doctors & Health Care Experts

[@Eric-ye5yz]

I have lived and worked in UK, Australia and New Zealand, they all have universal health care and they have always looked after me and my family well.

[@delaynerulo6287]

I’m an RN in the US and ANYONE can walk into ER and be treated. If you cannot pay, you are placed on a medical health system. We have thousands of Canadians that come here for surgeries they have to wait years for in Canada. My friends from Canada are shocked at how great the hospitals are here. There is no easy answer but I’m not impressed with the Canadian system.

[@keithpeterson5127]

We do not have millions of people without health care. Yes, you are not turned away from the ER but you will have to pay for it later even to the extent of selling your home to pay for it. I know one case when this occurred in the US in the 70s.

[@sarahchan5604]

Since you are American and never experienced the Canadian healthcare system,no wonder you are not impressed

[@sudiin]

I lived in Canada and these people deserve to be listened to.

[@musclehog3417]

When you sit in a doctors office you and every person around you are all paying for it, through taxes and what not im sure the government picks up some bills here and there. Its about helping the guy next to you, your neighbour, or the people on the other side of the country you have never met. Its about coming together as a nation to help each other out. I walk into the doctors, flash my medicare card and take a seat. Wait a little then get to see a doctor. So I dont get it, and can some one please explain it to me, why are Americans so against it? Please a real valid argument, just one???? And remember its not about I shouldn't have to pay for others healthcare, because you should. Its all part of the pie, you give some ingredients then you get to have a slice, and everyone else does too.

[@MillionthUsername]

What right do you have to put a gun to your neighbor's head? Where did you get this right? What if your neighbor refuses to hand over their money to you? What will you do to them? Where did you get this right to initiate violence against them? None of you have an answer, because you know you are all liars. You don't care about people or their rights. You only care about spewing the most blatantly idiottc and irrational statist propaganda possible.

[@MillionthUsername]

claytucano Again, what right do you have to rob your neighbor?

[@moestietabarnak]

this is not robbing when YOU receive service in exchange.

[@JohnMurphy-fb8sw]

moestietabarnak Robbing is what insurance companies do to people in the United States. When governments pay medical bills through a universal single payer health care system then everyone uses the system (unlike the United States where only 30% of people with insurance run health care can ever see a doctor) and what we pay in taxes (which include better health care than any US health insurance company would ever let you have in the United States) is 25% of what you pay to US health insurance companies for you to pay for other people's health care, including those without insurance that you pay for.

[@JohnMurphy-fb8sw]

Every US health insurance payment you make pays for someone else's health care, except that what you pay in health insurance premiums, deductibles, and copays (none of which Canadians pay) is FOUR TIMES as much as Canadians pay in total taxes which include better and faster medcial care than any US health insurance company would ever let you have in the US. "What if someone decided to be an idiot and jump off a roof to see if he could land without breaking a bone? So he does, and I'm stuck paying his bill. " you're paying his health care with your US health insurance premium payment now, you're just paying four times as much as Canadians pay in taxes. :What if someone makes some stupid life choices and gets pregnant at 15, or eats McDonalds every day and has a heart attack? Is that my fault? Should I pay for that? What if someone gets cancer? Am I supposed to be okay forking over 50% of my income to the government so I can help pay their bills for treatment?" You pay for all those things now every time you make a US health insurance premium payment except that what you pay in US health insurance premiums is paying four times as much as Canadians pay in taxes. The MAXIMUM that Canadians pay in taxes is 29% (nowhere near 50%) while the only people who pay out 50% of their income in taxes plus health care costs are people in the United States with your catastrophically failed US health insurance. Canadians pay a very small fraction of the taxes we pay toward health care. The majority of what Canadians pay in taxes (25% of what you pay in taxes plus health costs) goes toward family allowance, old age pension, guaranteed income suppliment and 52 week or 78 week government paid parental leave. The only people who have non medically trained people controlling their medical care are people in the United States who have insurance company clerks controlling your medical care. Governments do a far better job of paying for health care and leaving medical decisons to doctors than US health insurance companies do in denying you treatment, controlling your health care and overulling doctors in the rare occasion anyone in the US with health insurance can even see a doctor.

[@justbecca666]

I was in the states last year for a music festival and was talking about health care in the states with some of the american people I was hangin out with....getting medical care costs me nothing. I realize I do pay for it with taxes but to an accident prone person like myself it is worth it without a doubt! My boyfriend was in the hospital with a broken femur and hip for 2 weeks and it cost him nothing out of his pocket. I am Proud of living in a country that keeps me and my loved ones healthy!

[@SoNocturnal]

I work in the Canadian healthcare system, and It's not great at all. Wait times for surgeries/beds is ENORMOUS! way too many people are dying waiting for something they can get in weeks if they were American.

[@DreamworxCanada]

I thank my parents daily for immigrating to Canada vs the U.S.

[@Darrin-ws1fh]

Can you explain how 10% of our GDP equates to Half of our Budget going to Healthcare? We have other programs that run aside from Healthcare also. You keep bringing up the 'Patient Based' toss in...what do you even mean by that?

[@johnfraser3921]

Try learning a little basic maths before you look into social systems!

[@JohnMurphy-fb8sw]

CSX Productions The nation where half of the money going to health care does not go toward patient based health care is in the United States, where US health insurance companies have 50% overhead. 99% of money going to health care in Canada goes toward providing health care to patients. 50% of the money going to health care in the United States goes to CEO salaries, shareholders, advertising, paperwork. and other non medical costs, and only 50% of US health insurance premiums go toward providing health care to patients. What you are describing is insurance run health care in the United States, NOT health care in Canada.

[@hogmango3560]

Mo Fo go back to Russia.

[@daw162]

Claims payments (cost of care) in the US are required to be 80 to 85% of premiums, more or less. There is no 50% overhead for health insurance companies. The problem is high service costs and frequency of use. You can bury your head in the sand and think that the insurance company is some boogieman, but the big problem is that you're detached from the cost of the services that you're using, and you're using them too often. 80-85%+ of what you pay in premiums is being used to pay for your care on average.

[@Elastikid]

Why would you want the US to adopt universal health care, then you Canadians would have nowhere to go when you are waiting for months and months for a MRI or CT scan.

[@Kritiker313]

Thanks for setting the record straight. I've been following the issue of universal healthcare for years now. Americans are beginning to get the message that affordable healthcare is a human right, not a perk to be enjoyed by the privileged few who can afford it. Vermont has passed single payer and other states are following suit.

[@CCRider100]

I for one am glad Canada has universal health care, but we do somewhat have a GP problem, we need not only more family doctors, but more GP's of a higher quality. On the other hand, the level of hospital care experienced has always been good to great. With regard to wait times, I had an operation 4 years ago, it took one week to see a specialist and only 2 more weeks to have the operation done. The nurses and doctors were top notch and it did not cost me one cent (yes taxes).

[@SandraNelson063]

I have a chronic health issue that would have killed me if I was in the states. I have needed a LOT of emergency room care, a LOT of home nursing, a lot of special wound care bandaging, a lot of various specialist visits, a lot of x-rays, MRI, CT scan...hearing aids, glasses...all paid for by Ontario Health Insurance, and Ontario Disability. Even my use of an ambulance. None of this would be possible if I lived in the US. It isn't free health care, I paid into it when I was healthy and able to work. The best investment imaginable.

[@thepeoplesnetwork9256]

Thanks for your comments.

[@drewdash2733]

So you waited 2 years to have surgery in Canada? Stop lying and saying your healthcare system is good. Anytime you go to govt healthcare clinic or doctor or ER in canada they tell you wait tim is between 3 and 12 hours.. if u want a blood test or surgery like tonsils removed they tell you to go to private healthcare and pay cash out of pocket or put you on the govt list and wait for treatment whixh is a 2 year wait.. sometimes even 3 years. 3 years for a blood test.

[@drewdash2733]

Sandra ypu didnt pay for shit youre milking other ppl for their money thru the govt. You should have had a lobotomy because youre a complete moron

[@elchacal535]

@Drew Dash How the fuck do you know she didn't pay for it? do you even know how the single payer system is founded?

[@toppermost66]

B.s.

[@BloggerMusicMan]

(cont, this is long) In Ontario, one case that comes to my mind is my grandfather had a stroke which crippled the left side of his body a few years ago. He completed his hospital stay and rehabilitation, covered mainly if not completely by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), in four months. My own family was able to choose a very professional doctor who I still have today after nine years. Like anything in life, it hasn't been perfect. But overall, I'm quite satisfied.

[@ericbrufatto5371]

Health care for profit is obscene, in the richest country in the world, what a shame.

[@HOTRAILProductions]

eric brufatto How do you take care of sick people, cure others with numerous drugs, vaccines, and research, and have clean facilities with large numbers of doctors without profit? Doctors do not work for free, btw?

[@ericbrufatto5371]

+CSX Productions You need to take a look at democracies with universal (France, England, Canada, etc.). Doctors in those countries are paid as well relatively, and they have similar social status as doctors in the U.S.(perhaps, even better regarded, knowing it's not all about money, because the patients know they're not being over-charged, because they're not being charged t all).

[@HOTRAILProductions]

eric brufatto All those systems are bankrupt, they have shortages, rationing, citizens flocking to the US, and lack of innovation and investments.

[@ericbrufatto5371]

+CSX Productions "You can't tell a Heinz pickle."

[@neilcameron3021]

complete bollocks

[@MadHabber93]

@trugemini6382 "The National Cancer Institute estimates that nearly 12 million Americans with a history of cancer were alive in January 2008. Some of these individuals were cancer free, while others still had evidence of cancer and may have been undergoing treatment." cancerDOTorg/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc-031941.pdf

[@JordanCrowderFilms]

I've had healthcare in both Canada (where I grew up) and in the USA (where I live now), and most Canadians have no idea how bad their healthcare is, it's absolutely awful, one of the reasons we I left.

[@canadianehtheist3752]

+Jordan Crowder Troll! lol

[@sjdover69]

Liar

[@BeeBumper]

+Jordan Crowder ROFLMAO you left Canada because of the free health care. You preferred going to a country where the healthcare quality has always been determined by what you can afford. Sorry bud but that is the biggest load of bullshit I've ever heard of or seen and I've been on farms. Having lived in Canada my whole life and never seen this low quality healthcare you speak of I have to call total bullshit. Tell me about the place you came from in Canada, what is the speed limit for a street without signs telling you the speed limit before you left. What was the first 2 things we did in school before class began in jr. public school??? If you're really from here you would know these things, and be careful because google won't help you.

[@pocojoyo]

+Jordan Crowder HAHAHAHA, good trolling !

[@johnbenton4488]

+Jordan Crowder Spoken like a true millionaire.

[@ungs123]

As a canadian i must say that i am very pleased and happy with our healthcare system in canada,there would not be a shot in hell that i would EVER move to america and think that there healthcare system works because as you can tell it does not. how many people in america who do not even have BASIC healh care it is pretty sad America thinks like this " EVERY PERSON FOR THEMSELVES,AMERICANS ARE VERY SELFISH. AND I AM GLAD THAT I DO NOT LIVE IN THAT COUNTRY. that is all

[@samsloan4110]

In America, cancer isn't a death sentence, we don't have to wait 6 months for a surgery, there's a reason all the rich people from socialized medicine countries come to the USA for surgeries.. we will help them and won't let them die on a waiting list

[@temperedprobe]

Like our Canadian cousins, we also have universal health care here in Australia called medicare. We pay for it by handing over an extra 1.5% income tax (medicare levy) which is way less than any private health insurance. My wife and my cousins wife were expecting babies around the same time and at the same hospital. My wife had a share room with another brand new mum and was there for about 5 days...cost....$0. My cousin and his wife used their private health insurance (because they could have the doctor of their choice if it was required...it wasn't) and had out of pocket expenses to cover the gap between what his insurance paid and what the hospital charged. His wife also had a share room like my wife and was there for about the same amount of time. I happily pay my extra 1.5% extra tax as do most Aussies. And just to add, our system is not perfect but it beats not seeing a doctor for years because you don't have a house to mortgage.

[@Dads4JusticeUK]

Thank you, I really liked this clip. I look forward to others from you. Feel free to contact me to discuss more

[@MadHabber93]

If your case is urgent FIXWCB, you go to ANY ER and would get an MRI right away if NEEDED. Just like our friend's 19 year old daughter did last month. Not only did she receive 1 MRI right away, but another later that day, confirming a stroke and was treated right away. Life saved with no bill to worry about. Thank God for Canadian healthcare.

[@TheDatabaseDude]

I'm Canadian. I remember what it was like before 1984 when the Canada Health Act became law. Back then you called your family doctor and could get an appointment in a couple of days - a week at most. Emergency rooms saw you almost immediately. Today, when I call my family doctor, it's at least a month, usually more to get an appointment. If you need care sooner, they tell you to go to the nearest walk-in clinic or hospital emergency room. Thus, the hospital emergency rooms are swamped and if you have a real emergency, you better be prepared to make your case to the triage nurse. I've waited over 10 hours on many occasions in hospital emergency room s since 1984And you are lucky to even have a family doctor. The most common sign on the offices of family doctors in Toronto these days is "Not Taking New Patients". I went 10 years without a family doctor after mine dropped out of the system to practice outside of the government system where he can charge a fee. This is only allowed for things not covered by the government system. Toronto is now a world capital for Laser Eye Surgery, Hair Transplants and Botox treatment - all things that the government system doesn't pay for and for which the doctors can charge a fee.If you are prepared to pay for things that are medically necessary but beyond what the government provides the answer is "No you may not". Recently a family obstetrician tried to setup a program where women could pay a fee to have extra care during their pregnancy over and above what the government deemed enough for a pregnancy. The government shut her down. What have we come to when a person would like to spend some of their disposable income on their health rather than on parties, travel and alcohol, and Big Brother says "No you May Not".How ironic that the Canada Health Act became law in 1984.

[@ericbrufatto5371]

If you went ten years without a doctor, you're either isolated, anti-social, agoraphobic, or just not looking.

[@TheDatabaseDude]

eric brufatto What a stupid comment. You don't know what you are talking about. I recently was up in cottage country just north of Toronto and drove though a small town that had a billboard on the highway begging for a family doctor to open an office in the area. This is not an isolated phenomena. People who make comments about things they don't know anything about are just plain S_T_U_P_I_D. That's you eric brufatto.

[@thoughtsurferzone5012]

I've been in U.S. ER's where I waited 10 mins. and I've been in ones where I waited 6 hours. That's just the way it goes. All I know is that I'm worried about switching jobs in the months ahead because it would disrupt my coverage and I have heart issues.

[@samsloan4110]

The veterans affairs hospital are universal health Care for soldiers and it's the worst run thing in the USA. People not getting treated for years, people needlessly dying everyday for lack of service. Horrible inefficiency and wasted money. The militaries universal health Care is responsible for more dead soldiers than the wars

[@jhowson3748]

Medicare is also "universal healthcare" for U.S citizens 65 and up. It boasts nearly a 80% approval rating, has overhead costs a fraction of the private sector and has significantly raised senior health statistics and lowered senior mortality rates.

[@tanzeel444]

Says more about the VA's inefficiency. The most effective healthcare systems in the world are all socialized, be it the French, the Belgians, or even the Canadians whose system is basically only a 'lite' version of the European healthcare regimes.

[@HeinzGuderian_]

@@jhowson3748 Medicare is not "universal healthcare". It is a cost sharing service and nothing else. The patient still has to find a medical facility that will accept the lower payments.

[@swish043]

Free healthcare should be a human right. Now we just need to get mental health services and dental up to speed.

[@sasksunwolf]

Thanks for watching. Yes to mental and dental. We also need prescription drugs, eye glasses and hearing aids.

[@Anxiousb]

Americans have a right to guns. We have a right to healthcare. I'm glad I live in Canada

[@HOTRAILProductions]

"Americans have a right to guns. We have a right to healthcare. I'm glad I live in Canada" You are FORCED by taxation to pay for someone else's healthcare, whether they use it or not. You are FORCED by taxation to be part of a public system where the government dictates who receives healthcare and when. Canadians receive healthcare by permission; not by right.

[@moestietabarnak]

You are forced into bankruptcy just by getting sick... talk about double jeopardy..

[@Fish7775]

I'm glad too. Stay there.

[@thebutcherofbenghazi.libya3348]

Funny -- most wealthy people come to USA, not Cana-duh, when their life is on the line. They've been caught KILLING patients in UK -- usually elderly and soometimes even kids -- for conditions CONSIDERED TREATABLE IN USA; when USA doctors offered to do the work gratis, the UK TOOK THE KID AWAY from 1 couple for the "crime" of trying to take him to USA to SAVE HIS LIFE, so desperate they were to avoid embarrassing the SHIT service -- deadly -- of the NHS which wants to EUTHANIZE the kid after letting him slowly deteriorate. I'm a bio-med engineer (inventor) so *I work w/doctors WORDWIDE.* Canada's PRIVATE sector system works fine -- but *NOBODY SANE drops down to the "basic" government coverage with wait-times so long I'VE SEEN PEOPLE DIE OF CANCER and other SLOW MOVING diseases if they dropped out of a "private" hospital's coverage into the system meant for Cana-duh's INDIGENTS* (and I suppose, Canada's daredevil crazies who want to risk their life). . . . i.e. Canadian "public" healthcare is NOT "public" for MOST people. . . . *Canada's system is much the same as Costa Rica's, where even the median income people (US$ 10,000) consider it CRAZY STUPID to drop your "PRIVATE (sector) hospital" coverage and go onto the GOVERNMENT (public sector, "free" i.. taxpayer paid) shitty long wait-times system, unless you're truly indigent -- even by Costa Rican (or Canadian) standards.* . . . *The DIFFERENCE is USA's litigiousness has driven up costs* (something that Obama refused to fix, after he corruptly gave deals to TLA (the ambulance-chasing attorney lobyists) and to Big Pharma AS SOON as Big Pharma swwitched from donations to Jhn McCain to donating to/bribing Corrupt Obama, and THE RESULT has been Obama's "public" sector system's premiums rose at TWICE the rate as the "old" system). *The difference is NOT the service received by those Canadians (or Costa Ricans, etc) who sign up to PAY MORE for the "private hospital" systems* with better coverage than the DEADLY dismal "bare bones" systems that only INDIGENT and daredevil-insane citizens use.

[@Quole1234]

@Uncle Ruckus Oh don't worry. No one in the right mind would ever go to a country that uses it's citizens' tax dollars on invading countries and killing people for no reason instead of providing clean water to all its people.

[@jhop017]

I agree with your positions. Universal healthcare is the way to go. I just graduated medical school with 350,000$ of debt. You cannot expect people to focus on taking care of people when we are so worried about taking care of our ridiculous and compounding debt. Socialized medicine starts with paying for our medical education.

[@eljefe2151]

I find it so comical how Americans try to make fun of Canada's healthcare system, always saying how it's so terrible... I broke my femur in half last summer. I got rushed to emergency, and was in surgery in a matter of hours from when I got in a car accident. 24 hours after my accident I already had surgery, and a metal rod and nails put in my femur. I spent 2 weeks in the hospital. Guess what my hospital and surgeons bill was? ZERO DOLLARS. My hospital stay and surgeries were paid by my taxes, all I had to pay for was my prescription and crutches(only 20% insurance covered the rest). So I literally got my femur fixed in under 24 hours of breaking it, and by the time I left the hospital I spent 25$ on crutches, that's it. If I were to have all that stuff done in the U.S., it would of cost me a minimum of 50,000$. Which I do not have. And American prefer that shitty system? Of going bankrupt when you break a bone? That sounds like hell.

[@norahbradley5138]

They don't get it. I love our coverage. I love being Canadian.

[@IOU1080]

+imaprouduclabruin Maybe, but when white Canadians struggle with their health (compared to Asians in the US), it won't cost them, especially if they are old and need meds for chronic conditions.

[@IOU1080]

+Logan Smith So glad you are doing fine! And your wallet did not suffer much. My neighbour fell, after walking her dog after the ice storm of 2013, and broke her hip on Christmas day. Had surgery right away. When she finally recovered, in the summer, a car ran her over when she was waiting for the bus, she had multiple surgeries for her broken bones and it also cost her nothing. As the elderly woman she was, she would have never been able to afford those two accidents. She would have had to sell her home in order to pay for everything.

[@DarkMustard1337]

10% of their gdp versus our 15%..its not a financial burden at all..at least they are investing in their citizens

[@annon3485]

Logan Smith wow you broke a femur ? A broken femur is very rare.

[@SuperStrik9]

Canada's healthcare system >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> America's healthcare.system. They aren't even in the same league. We Canadians pride ourselves on compassion.

[@knarftheriault]

I've had a few hospital visits here in Toronto in the past ten years. Average of 3 to 4 hours in and out for broken bones (each ankle and a hand). Not wait time. I'm talking: Arrive at hospital, register, triage, see nurse, see doctor, x-ray, diagnosis and release - with a programme in place for treatment for recovery. Not bad. Most recently I had a bout of sciatica, which was scary because I've never had it before and the symptoms were really concerning. 25 minutes. In and out. The doctor actually came in during the nurse's interview and I left with a diagnosis and prescription. 25 minutes from the time I arrived at the hospital until my release. Perhaps my results aren't typical. And I did have one very long wait at Emerg once (it was the main trauma Centre for the region and there was a huge highway accident with dozens of serious injuries - but I understand triage and they had to deal with more acute cases before mine). But with wait times like I've encountered, combined with an impressively high standard of care, something is working up here...

[@fluidfnbr]

+frank theriault thats funny when i broke my foot they had a wheelchair waiting for me and made me use it and drove me around they kinda took to good of care of me i was kinda embarrassed

[@HOTRAILProductions]

Don't get sick.

[@seemeno1]

America's health care system is far superior. everyone who makes claim Canada's is better has never been to the USA. they can claim they have, but i know several Canadians. my boyfriend is Canadian, ffs. stop lying, i know the truth. Canadian health care is trash.

[@danielthomas3333]

As someone who was hospitalized for 6 months in Canada I can tell you that the American view of Canadian health care is complete b***s**t The entire experience cost me out of pocket, $12000 and I was subjected to a host of high tech procedures which were carried out within hours of prescription. The same experience in the USA would have cost in the neighbourhood of six figures and I would most certainly e dead now

[@jlmadill]

I've watched some of the "town hall" meetings going on in USA about healthcare. Why? Why would any sane individual say "no" the the model we have in Canada? Why would anyone turn away an idea that gives free health care to everyone? It just boggles the mind.

[@jlmadill]

newtonsnews We are not taxed substantially more than other developed countries. Many in the G20 pay more than we do, actually. Moreover, the USA pays more per capita for health care and yet still the vast majority have to pay either through additional insurance or out of pocket. So yes, in a relative perspective, Canada's health care is "free" in that it is not incurring significant additional marginal cost. Additionally, there are side benefits to living in a country where everyone is medically cared for -- so even if you never personally need serious medical treatment (say you get hit by a bus and die when you're 40) you've been able to live in a society where crime is seriously reduced because of social safety nets for the at-risk and you've been able to live 40 years without the anxiety of paying for health care. All that peace of mind alone is worth whatever cost you're talking about.

[@gordonbradley199]

newtonsnews who's paying you for this ? because it's deliberate b/s !

[@80teg]

@newtonnews You're right, our healthcare system in Canada isn't free -- we all pay into it through taxes, and have decided to have our government is our "insurer". It is a socially agreed upon distribution of risk (like most ideal insurance programs) that we maintain because most Canadians understand that taking care of each other is not only possible, and in no way limits our individual pursuits, but is imperative as we all stand to gain from living in a country where we have each others backs. ps- The world is full of countries where the rich control everything. You are more than welcome to experience this eutopia for yourself if you'd like. I have a feeling you've never lived anywhere else.

[@hogmango3560]

jlmadill Because in America, conservatives aren't sane.

[@hogmango3560]

Mo Fo Canadians have always stood by America in war. WW2, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, Iraq. So don't try pulling that bullshit out of your ass. The real difference between Canada and America is America sees people with illnesses as a way to make profits. Canadians don't.

[@SoNocturnal]

@MadHabber93 I'm a Nurse. Yes, a very new nurse, but throughout my studies I've actively worked in a dozen hospitals during my clinical rotations. So no, I do not mop floors in the hospital, although where I work our cleaners make $22/hour, lol! Not too bad is it? Also, my uncle died waiting for a transplant after 4 years, so don't say it doesn't happen because it does. I've had patients in my rotations that have been on waiting lists for months, sometimes years, and yes, some died.

[@j12torts]

America shldnt adopt the canadian healthcare they should tailor what they have now to make it better and suit the american culture.

[@Jagabot]

Paul, you have no idea what you are talking about. Taxes in Canada are not that much higher than they are in the USA. (Comparing single income) $36,250-$87,000 income USA $4,991.25 + 25% : Canada, $10,823 - $42,706 15% and $42,707 - $85,413 22% Do some research before you assume that taxes are so astronomically higher in Canada. The largest difference in Canada is that the wealthy pay more taxes than in the USA, not the lower or middle class. On average, we pay 2% to 4% more.

[@NonstopRam]

Waz up Canada!

[@manfromthehorizon3870]

I have Glioblastoma (Brain cancer) and I would be dead now if it wasn't for Canada's Medicare system.

[@thepeoplesnetwork9256]

Man From the Horizon Thanks for sharing! Steve

[@kevinp8108]

It's a shame when Americans has to choose between food or medicine. Healthcare in the US should be a "right" not a "privilege". Universal healthcare for all!!!

[@stubee3924]

***** food in not guaranteed.

[@MillionthUsername]

Initiating violence against the innocent is not a right, you moron. It's the abrogation of rights.

[@paradiso123]

wesley ogilvie More like inherited money.

[@bearwarner4994]

It's worse than a choice between food or medicine. Many many Americans grow up like I did: living hand to mouth, and knowing that a medical bill in the tens of thousands is just not payable. You can't even think about it. You just avoid healthcare most of the time, unless you have an emergency. Then, you get an emergency health situation, get a huge bill, and you shift all of your financial choices to avoid needing credit, because you won't be able to get any now, for sure.

[@hogmango3560]

Renet Rowe Having your paycheck garnished and loosing your home to medical bankruptcy is the American healthcare system.

[@MadHabber93]

Keep in mind the term anecdotal evidence.

[@grevberg]

There is a lot of money at stake. The difference between the 8% of GDP that most nations with socialist health care spend compared to the US 16% is about 400 billion/year into the pockets of the 0.01%

[@marysaw3920]

Do you know where your 14 Trillion Dollar deficit is?

[@JohnMurphy-fb8sw]

It's totally in the military, particuarly Reagan's and Bush's immoral wars.

[@cnferguson5]

mary saw that's partly because of trickle down economics

[@markgorman4805]

The difference goes to no wait lines and better equipment, you idiot.

[@JohnMurphy-fb8sw]

No, it doesn't. The massive amounts you pay go from US health insurance companies goes directly into the pockets of health insurance CEOs and shareholders. None goes for equipment and people in the US have much longer waits for treatment than we do in Canada The vast majority of people in the United States (70%) have much longer waits for treatment than we do in Canada. 70% of people in the United States can't even see a doctor when they should be seeing a doctor, let alone that they cannot ever have the medical treatment they need either. We in Canada have better and faster medical care than 70% of people in the United States (the ones with your catastrophically failed insurance run health care) could ever have in the United States.

[@Charlie12241]

"America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well...all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!"

[@sharkbaitblu]

I live in Australia and we still do have a Public Medicare system in place...although in the last 15years our Conservative governments (no I did not vote for them) have brought in more private (corporations - profit based) medicare systems into Australia...I will never get private cover as I love paying my taxes towards a health system that benefits my country and everyone who lives there irrespective of their race, gender, age or income. That is called a responsible society.

[@BeeBumper]

+CharKi ClaRke Yes Conservatives have tried to implement that in Canada as well, and it would be their Political Death if they ever succeeded. Two-tiered systems are pushed by the very rich to profit off of people's misery.

[@HOTRAILProductions]

It's called socialism, and Australia does not have the problems with illegals and freeloaders that like to suck people dry.

[@HOTRAILProductions]

If Canada made their healthcare system profitable, they would have huge opportunities for careers, large numbers of doctors and hospitals, no "wait lists," large drug production, and investments for technology. But they would rather force their citizens to be part of a bureaucracy.

[@johnfraser3921]

It is indeed called socialism and only the great uneducated think that's an abusive word. As to the "illegals" (by which I ssume you mean anyone who is not US born),you seem so concerned about you have fewer then Europe has where socil medicine works pretty darn well at a much lower cost !

[@paigefarah28]

Force? that would imply that we don't love our health care which we do. If it was so flawed, don't you think our right-wing parties would be fighting to dismantle it and move to a multi-payer system? Stop buying into Republican and insurance company propaganda, Canadian patients and doctors are quite happy with our health care.

[@garyquan5575]

A very big thank you to Tommy Douglas, the ''Father'' of Canadian Medicare. I want to give an even bigger thank you to my mom and dad for deciding to stay in Canada and NOT move to the U.S. (after Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker decided to cancel, make that destroy, the Avro Arrow project back in 1959).🙂🙂🙂

[@sasksunwolf]

Thanks Gary for your comment. The Canadian Medicare advantage is especially evident during the pandemic. There are also weaknesses in our system that the pandemic has brought out. Hope when we leave the pandemic behind Canada will create a new better normal for Medicare. Thanks for watching!

[@sasksunwolf]

I’m glad I chose not to leave Canada when my health job with the province disappeared.

[@BluePiggy]

Thanks for posting this. Americans have been so terrified into thinking that socialism is ever and always bad and that private industry and the magic invisible hand of the free market will somewhat solve all problems that they have consistently voted against their own interests on the topic of health care.

[@HOTRAILProductions]

Everyone suffers the same consequences in socialism, and government healthcare takes away freedom of choice.

[@BluePiggy]

CSX Productions And you know this how?

[@HOTRAILProductions]

Lee Brown Ask Canadians. It is 100% illegal to pursue private care. They are FORCED through taxes to pay for others' healthcare whether you want to or not.

[@BluePiggy]

I AM Canadian. If you think some people are paying for others' health care here, what do you think happens with private health insurance? The thing is, everyone here has health care, and it costs a smaller proportion of our GDP than yours does. We get better drug prices because our govt found a way to balance patent protection with making drugs cheaper by encouraging generics. And it is not "illegal" to pursue private health care. What is illegal is for doctors to offer gov't paid-for services on a preferential basis for cash. They are allowed to charge for services the gov't won't pay for, like prescription renewals by phone or medical letters to one's employer. It's not a perfect system, but don't knock it until you've tried it.

[@BluePiggy]

CSX Productions By the way, we get to choose our own doctors, and if people want to go outside the country for operations and such, no one is stopping them.

[@BloggerMusicMan]

I'm a born Canadian who lived in the United States for 5 1/2 years. I've lived in the Greater Toronto Area for almost 9 years now. You must keep in mind that the Canadian health care system is really a variety of programs. The provinces issue health care plans and insurance, not Parliament. When you get a health card, it comes from your province. There are mandatory rules set by the 1984 Canada Health Act (not for profit, minimum standards, etc). But the provinces run the system.

[@mikeblain9973]

The UK has run universal healthcare for much longer than Canada, and it has been on the brink of collapsing under its own weight for years now. Canada will reach that point as well eventually. The long term sustainability of any system requires some form of consumer (patient) choice driving market forces (competition). Taxpayer funding completely removes that driving force, which is why prices naturally escalate.

[@TrakeM118]

+Mike Blain Have you seen US prices? They are escalating far quicker than are Canada's. Truth be told, in any system when you break your leg or have some other life threatening emergency you aren't going to go get a laptop and cell phone and call around to hospitals and ask about the relative pricing of different procedures and then go get a medical degree so that you can figure out what you need so that you know what you're shopping for. I'm sorry, but when you're having a heart attack that just isn't really an option. That's why health care fundamentally doesn't work with a capitalist system. There can't be a real market place because you can't shop around because your heart attack just doesn't wait on you to do comparison shopping. Also, medicines are VERY monopolized. Just take a look at Daraprim. A corporate CEO bought the rights to the drug and raised the price of the drug by 75000%. That wasn't due to government oversight. That wasn't due to awful government. That's just what the free market does when it has a monopoly on something people need to live. If you want a free market capitalist system, just get used to and accept the reality that you'll pay exorbitant costs for a system that's corrupt to it's core because corporate corruption and bribery are a normal way of doing business in any capitalist system.

[@mikeblain9973]

TrakeM118 Prices always escalate more when the person receiving the goods or service is further away from the actual payer. Funding through taxation is the most remote possible payment system. Almost as bad is government mandated health insurance, such as employer healthcare in the US. You are incorrect about the 75000% increase. It was a high number but it was only(?) a few thousand percent (still outrageous of course). You put that down to simple greed, but do you think that could ever have happened in a system where the patient is responsible for choosing treatment based on cost/benefit? No, it happened in a system which tolerates huge increases because the patient has no interest in knowing how much any treatment costs, because the insurance/government will pay the bill. To illustrate with another system... food. When you go grocery shopping you make every choice based on price. But what if the government said food is vital for living, so government will pay for all groceries through tax funding. You would not make the same choices when you walk through the store.

[@TrakeM118]

There aren't other options than the one drug for that particular ailment so you'll pay whatever you have to if you want to live. For the most part we have a free market insurance driven system. Canada has single payer and they pay far less for drugs than we do. When you get a heart attack it doesn't matter what system you have, you aren't going to go around doing price comparisons while you're suffering from a heart attack.

[@mikeblain9973]

TrakeM118 _"we have a free market insurance driven system"_ If you mean the US, no you don't. Under Obamacare you have to buy a mandated full insurance, so everything in healthcare will be remote payed. (Thats like buying a bloated car insurance so it will pay for your oil changes and servicing.) As I understand it, nobody will have the option of buying only catastrophe insurance and personally paying routine doctor bills. So, once all routine health is priced invisibly to the patient, there will be no patient choice going on, so no competition between doctors. No competition in any other industry means higher prices. Why is healthcare different? It is nonsense to only look at the example of a heart attack patient doing price comparisons. People with heart issues usually have a longer term relationship with a cardiologist, and if that was a free choice market then all those non-emergency interactions with the cardio industry keeps the costs down, because people can anytime choose another doc. You have to think past the propaganda and scare tactics which politicians use.

[@TrakeM118]

The mandate was created by our free market system of politics. If you don't like the politicians we have and you can afford it, you can buy the politicians you want. They are all for sale except Bernie Sanders. You don't even have to be a US citizen to buy one. The reason Daraprim is so expensive isn't because of ACA and our health care system was insurance based long before ACA was passed. Suppose you get your leg broken by an accident. I assume you want to then start looking around at health care choices? Shop around? Will you even know what procedure you should be checking on the price for? Look around the world. Tell me the nation that you think currently has the best health care system. As best as I can tell it's Canada. There are countries out there with very tiny governments, just none I'd ever want to live in. You can talk philosophy all you want, but please answer that question. Name the actually existing here and now country that you feel does health care best.

[@AstaraelDarkrahBlack]

Hey! I am interested in finding out more. Can you give me some links talking about this? An American

[@ryuweehyun9517]

Main goal of private companie should be making most profit with everything they can use. However, using fellow citizens’ lifes and their desperations to make money are not acceptable. And only the government has the power to regluate them and only your voices and votes will change its decition.

[@HOTRAILProductions]

Are you nuts? Sounds like socialism to me! Canada's healthcare "system" is system-based and not patient-based. The politicians are afraid to admit they cannot take care of the whole population without private healthcare because they might lose their jobs.

[@Floccini]

SparwoodApple I am curious about that, what search terms can I use to get at some info? If Robert L. Ohsfeldt and John E. Schneider are wrong i would like to know.

[@mollygrubber]

Be brave America, do the right thing. My Canadian health care costs are easily affordable, and I sleep well at night knowing my family is protected from injury and disease. Don't be fooled by the crass commercialization of US medical care. It's simply disgusting to see it from a foreign perspective.

[@ungs123]

@paul4073 Basic Health Insurance is a program designed to supplement regular health insurance. All people qualify for this insurance as long as they can work and perform their normal duties. This insurance does not make you answer medical questions and it covers pre-existing conditions after a certain waiting period, usually six months. The intention of this insurance is not to be your primary coverage but rather to offset the charges you incur from deductibles in your regular insurance

[@Zine2me]

You all have got it figured it out. The population is ready for a change, but the damb politickers are not. (nor are the pharmacy companies)

[@DavidStanleymusic]

Jane Morrison We are just going to have to elect a politician who will implement the will of the people,

[@HOTRAILProductions]

Where do the investments for drug production, research, and technology come from? Where do we plant the money tree and lollipop plants that spawn the "free" drugs?

[@paradiso123]

CSX Productions Make science public! Make healthcare public! Make infrastructure public! Make prisons public! Democratic socialism ftw!!

[@moestietabarnak]

most investment come for PUBLIC funded university research (or DOD etc..) private pharma invest MORE in marketing than actual science

[@Jagabot]

Yes, actually I do know EXACTLY what the effects are. The USA was in better shape when taxes were higher (and the rich actually got taxed) and income disparity wasn't so broad. You only need go back 40 years to see the effects of higher taxes the resulting stronger economy and a exponentially lower debt. Reagan lowered taxes, economy shrank and trickle down economics was a failure. Clinton raised taxes - economy boomed. Bush lowered taxes, economy choked.

[@Nieceness]

I'm really tired of hearing people compare healthcare systems when the opinions of BOTH sides reek with propaganda. I was born and raised with American healthcare and moved to Canada 18 years ago and and one of the very few that have experienced both and can possibly have an objective opinion. The truth is Canadians opinions are skewed with need to believe in a superior system when they don't even know the difference. My BIG problem with this is that the term "Universal" to describe the healthcare system north of the border is a flat out lie. There are many necessary areas that are simply NOT COVERED by this so called "Universal" health care such as prescriptions, eye care, dental care and physiotherapy. Where is that ever mentioned in this debate!?!? It's an important fact to leave out! I'm all for a system that meets the needs for as many people as possible and not contaminated by greed, but Americans don't need to be pushed with a system that is not even being portrayed objectively for it's strengths and weaknesses. I'm disgusted that our media in the States has been bought by corporations with the intentions of causing disunity in order that they can push their own money grubbing self interests and I see it working. :( I'm also disgusted that so called healthcare professionals who would have to witness their own patients unable to afford treatments that aren't covered in this so called "universal" system perpetrate that lie at the expense of those they are sworn to care for. Please look at yourselves and ask yourselves why you would want to add to the problem.

[@Nieceness]

Say that to a retiree without prescription coverage and diabetes... The world health organization ranks countries by quality of health care and the US ranks 37. Canada ranks 30.

[@seemeno1]

Niece Ness you can pull up a list. but the objective truth is Canadian health care is trash. my boyfriend couldnt even get his gall bladder removed for 4 months. my mom in America had hers done in 2 weeks. the only argument for Canadian health care is you only pay for it with your tax dollars. how about instead, you keep that money and send it to your own private insurance plan, that way only you and the insurance company that you get to choose out of 10 of them gets the money. if your health care system is universal, you don't get to pick a better quality version. you're simply stuck with what your country stole from its people to pay for.

[@rickbruner]

So if you've lived a long time in both places, which do you prefer? Is Canadian healthcare markedly different in different provinces?

[@CaesarAugustus.]

The Sanders plan covers it, and Dr Martin, shown in the video, has expressed that frustration.

[@CaesarAugustus.]

seemeno1 Canada’s wait problems are not an inherent result of universal care. It’s actually extraordinary in its wait times compared to other countries with universal healthcare.

[@Iccdoc]

The USA already has single payer, it's called "Medicaid." No matter what healthcare system you have, there is always going to be a black market for better healthcare. Think 'medical tourism.' There are Canadian government officials who come to the USA to get surgical procedures. Everyone gets emergency care in the U.S. regardless of ability to pay. Emergency care is not the issue. The issue is how long do you have to wait before you get needed medical care that is not at the emergency level.

[@dmulk1]

The health care system in the USA is horrible! I am in so much debt because of medical bills its unbelievable. I've never experienced Canada's system firsthand but I did live in the UK for many years and the National Health Service there is much better than most Americans could comprehend. There are really only two types of people in the US against a single payer system; 1) people with great existing health insurance or 2) people who are staunch Republicans who irrationally fear that a single payer system is a big step toward socialism. The USA could certainly learn a great deal from our neighbors up north.

[@HOTRAILProductions]

dmulk1 1)health insurance exists for a reason;to lower to cost of the patient and help invest in more healthcare. 2)Single-payer healthcare is government interference which rations the money and leaves little for the patient in then end. There really is no such thing as "Single-payer, " since multiple sources pay into it anyway. Canada could learn a great deal front US by making their system a revenue-generator and having more doctors and investments to wipe out the waiting lists and tie the money directly to the patient. That is what private Healthcare is about.

[@polkadot550]

You do know doctors are leaving the U.S. to work in Canada right

[@JohnMurphy-fb8sw]

CSX Productions Canadian health care is patient based while US health care is health insurance company profit based with US health insurance companies making medical decisions. US health insurance is all about price fixing at a high very expensive level with health insurance companies making medical decisions. Universal single payer health care is all about affordable costs to taxpayers and doctors and patients making medical decisions.

[@JohnMurphy-fb8sw]

Your insurance run health care in the United States is nothing but garbage. 860,000 to 1,000,000 people from the United States (most with your failed US health insurance) a year have to come to Canada for medical care they were denied by US health insurance companies (while a maximum of 1600 Canadians ever go to the US for medical care, 1/540 as many as those from the US who come to Canada for medical care). It is not government that is responsible for the high cost of health care in the United States. It is US health insurance companies that are responsible for the high cost of health care in the United States. The ones who jack up prices are US health insurance companies, NOT government. Get health insurance companies out of health care and health care costs will plummet. When the government pays all doctor and hospital bills, the cost of increased taxes is 25% of what you now pay to US health insurance companies. Canadians pay 30% LOWER taxes than you do while we pay for health care through our taxes. By the time you pay 30% higher US taxes plus health insurance premiums (which we in Canada don't pay) plus deductibles (which we in Canada don't pay) plus copays (which we in Canada don't pay), you have paid FOUR TIMES AS MUCH AS CANADIANS PAY IN TOTAL TAXES, yet Canadian health care is vastly better than yours.

[@seemeno1]

taxes are lower for LOWER CLASS citizens. Sometimes. For anyone earning a decent wage, they're higher than the U.S. by a considerable sum. Worse still: Canadian taxes pay for services that earning larger sums of money on an annual basis disqualifies the taxpayer from investing in. If you're even middle or upper-middle class, Canadians are not only paying more in taxes than their U.S. counterparts... they're paying a lot more... for services they're disallowed from using. Yay, Socialism.

[@ungs123]

@CAPWEY it's ok you are still young as a mother with a preteen i can't imange what you must be feeling right now,i only wish you the best for you and your family,if you move can make the move to Canada you will have less problems to deal with and get the help that your family needs. take care

[@brewmaster95060]

MEDICARE IS BROKEN.

[@MadHabber93]

Wow, you certainly showed him by equating the life of a frog to that of a human. Gee, you sure changed my mind on what side of the UHC argument I was on. What was I thinking all these years?

[@brewmaster95060]

BS

[@siggizippan8076]

Why don't you include the German Health Care system? First of all, they have different insurance plans but all of them include vision care, pharma care and health care. German doctors cannot change from the public system to the private system. The same is true for the Netherlands.

[@onekerri1]

Ask folks from the Soviet Union what they think of communism. They think it's the best until they move to a non-communist nation.

[@choccows]

I only watched this to see Dr. Martin..she is beautiful and smart too!!

[@Gyrode]

I am not sure about the Canadian system, but in a UK system, doctors and nurses complain about reimbursements that are too low, or salaries that are too low because governments can never gauge or regulate supply properly. In the US, medicaid reiumbursements are always lower than private insurance reimbursements, for example.

[@ladu2104]

Классное видео! мне понравилось, молодец!) Вообще уважаю труд тех кто делает видео, и ведет свои каналы. Я сама веду канал и знаю, как это непросто - записывать ролики. Не останавливайся, продолжай!

[@satts1949]

Лада Лигай Как здравоохранения в России? Приписка Любовь ваши ногти

[@mystarlightsummer]

Is there a study or a poll that can support this? I'm not trying to start a debate, im just curious.

[@MadHabber93]

@jaimephysique Yes, and for urgent cases, the wait times for MRI's is the same. Our friends 20 year old daughter just recently received her MRI within minutes of entering the ER. And, according the Ontario provincial healthcare site, "There are no wait times for PET scans as currently provided and funded."

[@CrowdPleeza]

Somethings need to be clarfied about U.S healthcare. The U.S isn't an example of how free market heathcare fails because the U.S doesn't have a free market system. There is a good amont of gov't involvement in the U.S system(medicare,medicaid,emergency room care covered by the gov't).

[@danielthomas6739]

As I watch this video,I’m in a hospital bed in Canada. There has been no question of whether I get care or not, just service. I have now been in a hospital be for over three months. There is question of payment involved. In the u.s. I would be bankrupt.

[@ungs123]

@stephenbhola Good for you,I'm glad that you love canada and i am proud to be Canadian as well

[@WOODiE4U]

Every Canadian I've ever discussed this with says their healthcare system is deplorable.

[@MadHabber93]

The report I refer to is a poll done of over 5000 patients where they gave their average wait time for ALL procedures. Distinctions were not made between procedures. Yes, some have waits longer than that, but guess what? We wait a little longer because WE ALL get that cataract surgery. The same cannot be said about your system. How long do they wait in the States when they can't afford the procedure when they are NOT covered?

[@CrowdPleeza]

As far as improving private care competition. Wouldn't it help if more Americans could buy coverage across state lines(with some regulations if needed)? I heard a doctor say that Americans would have better insurance if each American could get a plan that covers their specific needs vs having to pay for coverages they don't actually need in their plans.

[@Jemalacane0]

Oy, I'm a "right-wing" American and am fully in favor of single-payer healthcare. I know, the U.S. healthcare system sucks and that Canada's is better.

[@Jemalacane0]

@@sasksunwolf You're welcome. :) The root of the word conservative is conserve and single-payer healthcare conserves lives and money. So, it is fiscally conservative.

[@MadHabber93]

Care here is based on need. If you come in with a major knee injury and are admitted, you will get that MRI right away as well. My colleague ruptured her achilles tendon. Went to ER, was seen right away. Sent in for an MRI...right away. Was on the operating table a few hours later. All done in an excellent hospital, by an excellent surgeon. We find it unacceptable that some would have to take out a major loan to pay for the same care.

[@BoojumFed]

3) While supply is an issue, it's not as if healthcare is a finite resource. It is a renewable service. Not only that, but it is a renewable service that actively boosts the economy, by providing demand for high-paying, secure jobs such as nursing staff, lab/ radiology techs, and manufacturers of medical supplys as well as the doctors themselves. (Just as the States do under the guise of 'military spending'.) Also, it ensures a healthy, active workforce for other sectors as well as it's own.

[@TheMeganExperience]

As an American I can actually agree with you. About 99% of the people I have encountered are completely unaware and refuse to be aware. Our country is a fantastic concept but the execution leaves a little to be desired. Major corporations rule everything. Monsanto monopolizing the food production industry and insurance agencies policing the healthcare industry.

[@daveni2]

@daveni2 in Canada the word complicated and healthcare are not usually in the same sentence, not for the individual anyway. If Canadians are ignorant when it comes to healthcare I can accept that.

[@peakhelliw1509]

To begin with, healthcare in Canada is anything but free. The average Canadian family of two parents with two children (similar to Walt's family in the drama) pays approximately $11,320 in taxes for hospital and physician care through the country's tax system, in addition to the cost of private insurance for things like dental care and outpatient prescription drugs. While lower than the amount American's contribute on a per capita basis, it is certainly higher than in almost any other developed country that offers universal healthcare. Canada's universal access health care system also fails to provide access to these services in a timely manner. The most recent annual survey of wait times in Canada revealed that patients have to wait approximately four and a half months on average to receive treatment for medically necessary elective procedures after referral from a General Practitioner (who most Canadian's also have a hard time finding). While the wait is shorter for cancer patients (about a month), we also have to remember the long wait patients face for access to diagnostic imaging technologies like MRI's (over two months on average) and CT scanners (almost a month on average) which are vital for assisting in making the diagnosis in the first place. Such delays can have large impacts on cancer patients, with the possibility that the size of cancerous tumours double every four months.

[@bthespoon]

Do you know how many American seniors say they "don't want government messing with their Medicare"? There are LOTS, and they are a testament not only to our ignorance, but also to Medicare's success in leaving medical decisions up to dotors and patients, unlike profit-before-people health unsurers.

[@ungs123]

@sbank As a American you can only answer that question i can't,since i had already stated in my previous post on how i feel,and like i said i do not mind paying into my system for ALL to have HEALTHCARE,see it's simple.really it is. Good day and happy Easter to all, Stay safe everyone

[@AngelofDeath_1369]

I'm not "suffering" under this system. This is the U.S, not Canada. If you don't like the way we do things, don't come here. It's that simple.

[@MadHabber93]

As someone in the Pharma industry, I can assure you, you are wrong. Innovation in coming from the U.S., Europe and other countries with Universal Healthcare, including Canada and Australia. The 'free' medical market in the U.S. is resulting in the most expensive system that provides no better results, Millions forgoing care and countless going bankrupt. Please read the Forbes magazine article on why free market healthcare will never work.

[@johngalt9332]

Just the doctors? Not the person who's life it is and who is ultimately paying? Do you think someone should determine what I find acceptable for me and my family?

[@48Ballen]

When you ration care, you can control the budget. There are more than150 doctors in Toronto alone who cannot work as physicians because there is no budget. Americans are never going to accept waiting lines and rationing. As a general rule , government can do nothing efficiently but they can ration care.

[@MadHabber93]

A. You just don't 'ask' for an MRI, a doctor does. If you walked in showing signs of a stroke, guess what, you get that MRI right away. I waited all of 10 days for a non-urgent MRI on my sinuses. B. If a doctor examined you and expected a ruptured disk, you would probably have that MRI quite quickly, and have it removed quite quickly. C. If you don't have insurance, and don't have the ability to pay, how long do you wait for that MRI? Let alone the operation that the MRI diagnosed.

[@MadHabber93]

Yes, I have many friends, family and colleagues in the States, and some of do feel that way. However, I've been noticing some more leaning away from the central power aspect when it comes to healthcare. It is a very tough sell. Thanks for your condolences.

[@MadHabber93]

Medical coverage or medical access?? Our system covers ALL hospital, doctora and clinic care. So yes, we are all happy with the coverage. We aren't 100% happy with all care received, but 85% of us are. That is shown through numerous polls. Like you said, no system is perfect.

[@MadHabber93]

Completely WRONG. ALL Canadians, no matter what age or financial situation, is covered 100% for all hospital and doctor care. Canadian HC has been stable for over 40 years and will continue to be.

[@briansmith3934]

Answer me this, if Canada healthcare is so good then why do we have so may Canadians coming over the border to get healthcare. There are a lot of hospitals and clinics along the US Canadian border. Canada also pays a lot in taxes for their healthcare.

[@daveogarf]

A MUST SEE for any Trumpanzees! Thank you, Canada.

[@thepeoplesnetwork9256]

Thanks for watching and commenting. Steve

[@MadHabber93]

It's a myth that many Canadians go to the States for care. And our polling that shows that Canadians are more than satisfied with the care they receive is care received IN Canada.

[@Sankofah]

The Canadian Health Care System is not as great as it cracked up to be. I realize that when you are younger and in great health, you believe it works efficiently. As one ages and becomes more dependent on the system, there are a lot of treatments that are not covered by OHIP. I have to have a cyst removed from my face but OHIP does not cover that expense. I have also had to pay out of pocket for PSA blood work tests. It's dangerous to age in Canada because what Canada now offers as health care, is MAID. MAID is Medical Assistance In Dying, once doctors have made the decision that you have reached the end of life, they are going to be euthanized as a means of reducing cost to the system.

[@donaldedward4951]

Note: People who need emergency surgery or treatment in ALBERTA receive it without delay. They are not entered or included in the wait time trends. ALBERTA IS RECOVERING FROM THE PREVIOUS CONSERVATIVE ADMINISTRATION WHICH WAS THROWN OUT.. It now has an NDP (i.e.Sociaist) government.

[@shytetalker4471]

As from Alberta also I have to say healthcare here really sucks. 6 months plus for a MRI. Is this called good healthcare. How about my elderly neighbor that has been waiting for a hip replacement for over 2 years. She can barely get around and in constant pain. This is what socialized healthcare looks like. The government cost savings scheme is to put people on long wait lines hoping that you die before helping you. Then they can help the small percentage and make it look like socialized medicine works.

[@ZzCanonBull]

@@shytetalker4471 would you like to go with the American system?...how much money you got?

[@Gyrode]

What are you talking about? I already typed that there are add on plans for the Canadian basic state health insurance mandate, I knew that already! I was just saying you cannot buy "extra police" like you can buy extra health insurance. The person was trying to connect law enforcement with health insurance...and I just pointed out there is a real supply problem with a state mandate.

[@ericd4401]

86% of Canadians like their healthcare. The 14% who actually need health care right now don't.

[@v19d]

The Canadian model was never passed by the American Congress. Forced to buy Health Insurance was passed.

[@MadHabber93]

@CannedKoolaid Wouldn't trade our system. Have a great family doc, and can usually get in to see him the same day. Any time I've needed or a family member needed urgent care, was seen immediately at the hospital. Like when my lung collapsed. We wait for more elective procedures like knee or hip surgery, but not for urgent cases.

[@MadHabber93]

Its perfectly ok if he wanted to fly all the way to Miami and pay through the nose for posh care in a posh hospital, that ANY Canadian could have received at no extra cost to them, outside their taxes in a number of different hospitals across the country. What's NOT ok, is deciding between re-mortgaging your house, or selling it all together to get the same surgery. Or not getting at all. That's the point.

[@MadHabber93]

@SoNocturnal Waiting for a transplant rely's on someone DYING and has nothing to do with the system. You don't think there are long waits for organs in the States?? So, as a nurse, what do you think the solution is?

[@TheMeganExperience]

The media and health insurers also try to pit the blame on the doctors and healthcare providers themselves so that the people are never angry at the insurance agencies, they are angry at the providers. We have friends that own a dentist office and the other day we were over there and one of their clients had had a claim denied AFTER the procedure was completed and AFTER they had already received a paper stating that the procedure would be covered, The patient was yelling at the receptionist...