Not sure if this should be under culture or politics, so sorry if I got it wrong.
Anyway, I'm from the U.S. and everybody's always talking about how universal healthcare is evil and will result in underpaid doctors, year-long waits for surgery, and 24-hour waiting periods in the waiting rooms. I was starting to wonder if this was all just propaganda spewed by the overpaid doctors in this country. So, I'd like to ask anybody here who as experience with the healthcare in Canada.
Few questions:
How's the waiting times in the waiting rooms
How long do you have to wait for major treatments/surgeries
How much do you pay for medicine?
Do you have to pay anything at all at the hospital? If so, how much? And in what cases?
Do you think universal healthcare is a good system?
Thanks you,
Justin Ellard
Anyway, I'm from the U.S. and everybody's always talking about how universal healthcare is evil and will result in underpaid doctors, year-long waits for surgery, and 24-hour waiting periods in the waiting rooms. I was starting to wonder if this was all just propaganda spewed by the overpaid doctors in this country. So, I'd like to ask anybody here who as experience with the healthcare in Canada.
Few questions:
How's the waiting times in the waiting rooms
How long do you have to wait for major treatments/surgeries
How much do you pay for medicine?
Do you have to pay anything at all at the hospital? If so, how much? And in what cases?
Do you think universal healthcare is a good system?
Thanks you,
Justin Ellard