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If so many Canadians are travelling to the United States for healthcare, then why isn't there a visible movement to privatise the Canadian system? That would eliminate travel expenses.
lol yeah, these stories are just desperate anecdotes used for propaganda purposes in America by the well funded right wing think tanks and their shills. The sad thing is that too many well meaning people with limited means buy into this nonsense.
Never happen! Any government tampering with the underlying foundation of Single Payer and they'd get run out of Ottawa on a rail..........even without an election.
Single payer healthcare could arguably be said to be our defining cultural "difference". "I've got mine, you're on your own" is not encouraged.
Correct. I'd be surprised if an American can answer my question.
If the American system is so much better for Canadians, then why aren't Canadians demanding to replicate it in their own country? Why would Canadians want to incur big travel costs each time they receive treatment?
If so many Canadians are travelling to the United States for healthcare, then why isn't there a visible movement to privatise the Canadian system? That would eliminate travel expenses.
There isn't. I noted earlier that only 0.15% of Canadians seek non-emergency medical treatment in the US. I would bet good money it's because most of them were already there on business or vacation when they got ill/injured.
If it does happen it will happen like it did in Canada. One place tried it and it worked, then all others soon followed. Once it happens, no government will ever be able to undo it, only try to improve on it. No administration would ever succeed in dismantling a single payer system, it would decimate their political capital and destroy their party for years.
As a percentage more Americans leave the US for care than Canadians that leave Canada
Americans don't have national health care. It makes sense that some will seek medical treatment elsewhere. Canada DOES have national health care, so why isn't Canada's national health care system meeting Canadians' health care needs? Why are increasing numbers of Canadians having to come to the US for medical care?
Will never happen because against their basic philosophy of privatization and free market devoid of government social networks. Let the poor and the middle class fall through the crack because it is their own fault for not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and becoming RICH.
America is at a crossroads today as never before. What kind of society are we to become? Some third world society of only very rich and very poor begging on the streets?
Yes, and THIS is why...
48% of all US births are paid by Medicaid, the welfare health care program for the poor. And 70% of those born into poverty will never rise above it, even as adults.
Anyone fail to recognize where that trainwreck is headed?
Americans don't have national health care. It makes sense that some will seek medical treatment elsewhere. Canada DOES have national health care, so why isn't Canada's national health care system meeting Canadians' health care needs? Why are increasing numbers of Canadians having to come to the US for medical care?
Most Canadians seeking health care in the US were already here on vacation or business
Canadians are permitted to stay in the US for up to 6 months.
What does that have to do with increasing numbers of Canadians seeking medical care in the US because Canada's national health care isn't meeting their health care needs? Nothing.
If so many Canadians are travelling to the United States for healthcare, then why isn't there a visible movement to privatise the Canadian system? That would eliminate travel expenses.
It is partially privatized. National health care in Canada doesn't cover prescriptions. etc. And buying private supplemental health insurance can get one more and better coverage.
Most Canadians seeking health care in the US were already here on vacation or business
You're deluded.
The Commonwealth Fund (liberal pro-national health care think tank, former president of 16 years Karen Davis was a member of Carter's HHS) released a report in 2014 ranking Canada 10th out of 11 wealthy nations in terms of health care.
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