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Why are they having to wait the extra days to see a surgeon. Do the Canadians get sick more frequently than Americans. Why would the Canadian doctors be referring their patients to the US. WHY does the system NOT work and is it possible to work at all?
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obvious answer
their system is primitive, third world doctors are not well trained in modern medecine. they work cheaper than modern doctors, more of them are needed.
If one is really ill in Canada they have no choice, send them to America.
Third world doctors don't practice surgery, they are basically G.P's at
best. The English system is a little better but much the same. If you want good doctors you pay privately for them. For serious problems you always go to the USA.
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talking at bubbler
have you heard of anything that was socialized working well?
The reason to improve and excel is missing, under socialism you only work as hard as you are required. in America under capitalism doctors are driven
to improve their skills and reputations, bigger rep, bigger bucks!
most cardiologist call their stock brokers three times a day with buy orders! If everyone could do it, practice medicine, it would be much cheaper .most people want experienced highly trained people tinkering around with their a.. .
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A real answer
While I know this board is not a forum for facts, I thought I would give my two cents.
First, I disagree with the premis of the question. Canada's universal h/c system arguably has more problems than ours. (I lived there for four years). Availability of services, quality of care, long waiting times for things like MRI's, there's no innovation.
Next, the current Medicare system is clearly not working as it will be bankrupt in 7 years (or sooner depending upon who you believe). Extending it to everyone would cause it to collapse almost immediately. Plus who do you think pays for that system? Its funded through federal tax dollars in fact it makes up a huge protion of the federal budget and it gets bigger proportionately each year.
It needs to be fixed and there are no easy answers it'll take lawmakers with lots of backbone to tackle the problem because if they don't the whole system will collapse and won't be available when many of us need it. The solutions won't be pretty because it'll necessarily mean benefit cuts and higher taxes for all of us.
Why don't we have a universal system? First because we have always had employer based health care. If you were to start from scratch this is not the best way to structure health care because with rising costs employers cannot afford to give insurance to employees. If the decisoin is going out of business or cutting benefits, they choose benefit cuts as they should but as harsh as this is, it's simple economics.
The problem is if employers aren't the means to get insurance who is? Clearly, to me, the Government isn't the answer... just look at the out of control Medicare system for evidence that governmet health care won't work. It's needs to be market based so there is comptition to keep costs down, encourage innovation by allowing companies who invest to make some profit (Albeit maybe not to the extent drug companies seem to be profiting on some things), and everybody would have ''access'' to health care for a reasonable price. (Those that don't choose to pay for health care should be penalized when they show up in the emergency room)
Prices aren't as bad as many think. A plan for a single person in their 30's is about $150 per month -- that's not bad considering what we pay for car insurance and other types of insurance.
Anyway, I don't have the answers and I'm not sure any one does. I don't believe there is a silver bullet fix, we need a combination of tax credits to help families and employers with the costs, we need utilization review of services provided, we need more open disclosure of medical waste and errors to weed out the bad doc's and we deperately need malpractice reform so trial lawyers won't keep adding billions of dollars in costs to the system.
Congress and the President recently enacted a prescription drug benefit under Medicare that will cost billions of dollars in addition to the current costs. That goes into effect in 2006.
No easy answers
By nancy
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