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Americans (I'm assuming you live in America), love to point to the Canadian health care system as some sort of failure. Does it have its problems? Yes. Do Cana
by dghlsakjg 3y ago
Americans (I'm assuming you live in America), love to point to the Canadian health care system as some sort of failure.
Does it have its problems? Yes. Do Canadians think that American healthcare is a better system? Actions indicate: No.
How do I know? 90% of Canadians live close enough to the border to hop over and visit a doctor and be home in the same day. That's incredibly rare to do.
The few Canadians I've met who think its better in the US have either never dealt with the US system, or have only dealt with it in terms of very high end plans provided by an employer.
As someone who has lived in both countries, and dealt with US healthcare (ACA, and pre-ACA). I never want to deal with US healthcare again. Last time I lived in the states my premiums were ~7% of my take home pay. That's a massive "tax" to pay, and that's before you actually see a doctor.
So yeah. Canada had issues with care homes during Covid, but the correct point of comparison isn't top-notch private care homes in the US (A majority of Canadian care-homes are private anyway, so we have the same high end thing here). It is to compare the free public care homes in Canada with people dying at home in the US because they can't afford any care at all.