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I promise you, Canada and Germany and Chile and France also have MRI machines and blood pressure cuffs.

nradov 4y ago
Canada doesn't have enough MRI machines. Wait times are long and increasing. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wait-times-for-health-care-in-canada-2020 https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa... All healthcare systems impose some sort of rationing. Canada rations care by imposing long queues for non-emergency cases, with significant variations between provinces. Affluent Canadians frequently travel to the US as medical tourists and pay for treatment out of pocket in order to skip the lines. There are also major differences in MRI scanners. A 3.0T unit can produce higher resolution images than a 1.5T unit, and this makes a difference in patient care quality. Countries like Chile are more likely to have the cheaper units. https://doi.org/10.1097/rli.0000000000000801 https://doi.org/10.1097/rli.0000000000000801
- travisporter 4y ago
  Well I’m waiting in the US. Appointment times for a dermatologist are out to 6 months earliest. The Fraser institute is a libertarian think tank so even if their data is right I don’t trust their conclusion. So what if 3% of people are waiting on a procedure? This needs to be apples to apples compared to other countries, per capita healthcare spending, life expectancy before drawing conclusions
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
  Funny, I do the same thing, medical tourism in Chile. Like all Hispanics. We all get all medicine in Latin America, never in America, to the extent it's avoidable. It used to be the other way around, like I knew a kid who kept traveling for medical tourism from Chile to America because he had a rare heart thing, rare disease. There should be flying ambulances, like international flights taking emergency patients to where they can be treated economically instead of getting signature after signature squeezed out of them, one per hour starting inside the ambulance.
- manuelabeledo 4y ago
  > Affluent Canadians frequently travel to the US as medical tourists and pay for treatment out of pocket in order to skip the lines. This is exacerbated in the US itself, where only the top 10% have access to expensive and timely medical treatment. I would argue that, at the very least, Canada does offer medical treatment to everyone.
daniel-cussen 4y ago
There's old ways to take blood pressure that haven't been expensified by American medicine.

Canada doesn't have enough MRI machines. Wait times are long and increasing. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wait-times-for-health-care-in-canada-2020 https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa... All healthcare systems impose some sort of rationing. Canada rations care by imposing long queues for non-emergency cases, with significant variations between provinces. Affluent Canadians frequently travel to the US as medical tourists and pay for treatment out of pocket in order to skip the lines. There are also major differences in MRI scanners. A 3.0T unit can produce higher resolution images than a 1.5T unit, and this makes a difference in patient care quality. Countries like Chile are more likely to have the cheaper units. https://doi.org/10.1097/rli.0000000000000801 https://doi.org/10.1097/rli.0000000000000801

travisporter 4y ago
Well I’m waiting in the US. Appointment times for a dermatologist are out to 6 months earliest. The Fraser institute is a libertarian think tank so even if their data is right I don’t trust their conclusion. So what if 3% of people are waiting on a procedure? This needs to be apples to apples compared to other countries, per capita healthcare spending, life expectancy before drawing conclusions
daniel-cussen 4y ago
Funny, I do the same thing, medical tourism in Chile. Like all Hispanics. We all get all medicine in Latin America, never in America, to the extent it's avoidable. It used to be the other way around, like I knew a kid who kept traveling for medical tourism from Chile to America because he had a rare heart thing, rare disease. There should be flying ambulances, like international flights taking emergency patients to where they can be treated economically instead of getting signature after signature squeezed out of them, one per hour starting inside the ambulance.
manuelabeledo 4y ago
> Affluent Canadians frequently travel to the US as medical tourists and pay for treatment out of pocket in order to skip the lines. This is exacerbated in the US itself, where only the top 10% have access to expensive and timely medical treatment. I would argue that, at the very least, Canada does offer medical treatment to everyone.

daniel-cussen 4y ago

There's old ways to take blood pressure that haven't been expensified by American medicine.