Comments on: Myths About Canadian Health Care http://www.healthierways.com/myths-about-canadian-health-care/ Your Free Guide To Live A Healthy Life... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:33:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Toronto Massage Therapy & Acupuncture http://www.healthierways.com/myths-about-canadian-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Toronto Massage Therapy & Acupuncture Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:00:15 +0000 http://www.healthierways.com/?p=377#comment-277 Thank you so much for this post. I am so happy to see an enlightened look at this old topic. The Canadian system has been getting a lot of flack in the States in the last year and it is largely unwarranted. The system works if you look at the most important stats. 100% of the people are covered. We pay less per capita for health care costs than many countries, especially the USA who actually has THE MOST EXPENSIVE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD. (I have a nice graph here: http://www.kenshim.com/index.php/2009/07/the-cost-of-health-care) Nobody will ever die because of being denied access to health care. Wait times are often flogged and there is some truth to it. I have been to the emergency room for non life threatening illnesses and I literally gave up and went home after 5 or 6 hours of waiting.... but then again, did I actually need urgent care? NO. The nurse triaged me as she should have and gave priority to others who really needed the care. While I have heard many stories of waiting for hours in emergency, they have all been for hypochondria, non serious illnesses with relatively benign symptoms. People that go to emergency with life threatening symptoms are seen immediately. Thank you so much for this post. I am so happy to see an enlightened look at this old topic. The Canadian system has been getting a lot of flack in the States in the last year and it is largely unwarranted. The system works if you look at the most important stats. 100% of the people are covered. We pay less per capita for health care costs than many countries, especially the USA who actually has THE MOST EXPENSIVE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD. (I have a nice graph here: http://www.kenshim.com/index.php/2009/07/the-cost-of-health-care) Nobody will ever die because of being denied access to health care.

Wait times are often flogged and there is some truth to it. I have been to the emergency room for non life threatening illnesses and I literally gave up and went home after 5 or 6 hours of waiting…. but then again, did I actually need urgent care? NO. The nurse triaged me as she should have and gave priority to others who really needed the care. While I have heard many stories of waiting for hours in emergency, they have all been for hypochondria, non serious illnesses with relatively benign symptoms. People that go to emergency with life threatening symptoms are seen immediately.

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