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In Canada, therapy is very expensive. About $150/h in the major cities. Meanwhile all my American friends get free therapy. Weird how that breaks the narrative
by Solvitieg 6y ago
In Canada, therapy is very expensive. About $150/h in the major cities.
Meanwhile all my American friends get free therapy. Weird how that breaks the narrative about US healthcare.
- SZJX 6y agoI mean sure, all the tech elites in the US get the best medical care out there, far better than those in so-called "welfare states" such as the Scandinavian countries. However such conditions are bound to their job and thus not applicable to the general cases. Don't think this is what the "narrative about US healthcare" is about. If you work in big tech in the US you live in a paradise-like condition far removed from the masses, this is pretty much widely known isn't it.
- velcrovan 6y agoHow does that work?? As an American, I must know.
- issa 6y agoI don't know who these American friends that get free therapy are, but as an American, I've never heard of that. I do know people who pay two thousand dollars a month for health insurance for their family and it INCLUDES therapy. But that seems pretty different.
- weakfish 6y agoNot sure how your friends are doing that. I had to stop therapy because I couldn't afford it.
- RankingMember 6y agoPlease tell us more about these American friends. I'm an American and this "free therapy" is completely foreign to me. More and more therapists aren't in-network because dealing with insurance is a pain in the ass, so even if you've got insurance you end up paying out-of-network which might cover $50 of that $150 session.
- gricardo99 6y agomental health is probably one of the worst aspects of a very dysfunctional US healthcare system. Somehow your friends ended up with an incredibly generous health plan (by the way, not "free", I'm guessing very expensive for their employers), but I assure you this is far from the norm.
- triceratops 6y agoIt's not free in America, it's covered by many employer health insurance plans (and probably costs more than $150/h). I imagine many Canadian employers also offer supplemental insurance to cover therapy.
- linseed_213 6y agoIt's $150 in the us also. Insurance occasionally covers it, making it ~$10-50 co-pay.
- jcomis 6y agoI pay $180 and have to manually claim it. Nothing is covered until I hit my out of network deductible of $1200? Then it's 60% covered. So yeah, not cheap here!