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The doctor chooses. In Canada, doctors can accept whoever they want and they'll only accept patients with good 'fit'. Everybody else is stuck going to a walk in
by FigBug 9y ago
The doctor chooses. In Canada, doctors can accept whoever they want and they'll only accept patients with good 'fit'. Everybody else is stuck going to a walk in clinic or the ER. How does it work in US? Do Doctors charge different rates for a checkup? I thought it was fairly opaque between the doctor and the insurance company?
- WalterBright 9y ago> The doctor chooses. Then there'll be a non-monetary "currency" of favors, who you know, black market, strings, etc. Such systems inevitably appear in any system of "free" scarce goods.
- brady8 9y agoI'm a Canadian physician, and this is not a correct statement. Nowhere in Canada are you allowed to cherry-pick patients.
- WalterBright 9y ago"Canadians pick their own doctors, just like Americans do. And not only that: since it all pays the same, poor Canadians have exactly the same access to the country’s top specialists that rich ones do." https://ourfuture.org/20080204/mythbusting-canadian-health-care-part-i https://ourfuture.org/20080204/mythbusting-canadian-health-c... When the good doctors are in demand, and the not-so-good ones are not, how is the allocation done?