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This is what's nice with a single payer health system. The same cost center has to either pay for disability related costs, or pay for treatments that would pot
by mabbo 9y ago
This is what's nice with a single payer health system. The same cost center has to either pay for disability related costs, or pay for treatments that would potentially end the disability related costs. It's a sane investment by the government here in Canada to make such choices.
On the other hand, if your health insurance is through one system and your disability insurance through another, you have everyone optimizing for their personal local minimums rather than the global minimum.
- refurb 9y agoDoes Canada pay for hyperbaric oxygen therapy?
- mabbo 9y agoI have no idea. But if it's proven, available, and makes sense then generally it will be available with prescription for it.
- johnnyb9 9y agoThat's generally the case with US insurance companies as well, which leads me to believe this is more "experimental" and thus not a good example of the merits of a single payer system.
- dmix 9y agoFor treating brain damage? No. Because no doctor would sign off on that as a treatment. There's no scientific evidence that oxygen therapy helps with brain damage. Like most "alternative" medicines this one gets pushed hard as a solution for everything, regardless of evidence.