Slight confusion on Universal Health Care "bliss" in Canada....
(maybe a Canadian can help me here..?)
Just to clarify my confusion...
• Canada has Universal Health care or single-payer health care....check
• A patient within Canada (citizen, of course) has the pick of the lot, can visit any Dr., any Hospital within Canada, of their choice..Doesn't matter if private or not, since most Canadians usually have a private insurance provided by Employers to cover the rather few non-medical necessary procedures...Check
• The "small" consequence of Universal Care (in Canada) is a small waiting list depending on urgency of either Visit or Test (MRI, Dental, CT etc....)...Check
• However, many high-quality medical graduates leave Canada...For better paying Careers in the U.S., resulting in a worrisome "brain drain" within.
Am I to understand that Universal Health Care (or rather single-payer health care) is a superb "ideal", something I would actually *love* to have within the entire U.S., but because within the Medical field of Canada the
paycheck could possibly be shit, based on the "Exodus" of kick-ass Canadian Medical grads to the U.S., Canada has all these benefits...and subpar Doctors?....
I'm only curious, and confused.....
so yeah....
That's on my mind this dreary cold friday morning b4 hemoDialysis treatment.
