March 3rd, 2010 | 
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Canadian Doctors for Medicare hosted a celebration of Medicare in Canada. The speakers included Roy Romanow, former Saskatchewan Premiere and Commissioner on Health Care in Canada. They tell Americans that Canadian universal health care works and encourage Americans to implement a single payer universal health care system. The video also features Dr. Steven Lewis a Health policy and research consultant, Dr. Danielle Martin, Dr. Ryan Meili and Dr. Robert Woolard representing the Canadian Doctors for Medicare and Linda Silas President of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions.
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To all Canadians …
To all Canadians who keep saying that health care in Canada is FREE: Are you idiots or have you never paid any taxes?
I live in Ottawa, and I’ve also lived and worked in the US.
I would rather pay for good insurance than pay 20% more in income taxes and 15% tax on anything other than bare necessities.
I don’t have a family doctor. I gave up trying to get one after being told too many times that they’re “booked up”. Nobody I know has a family doctor.
The Canadian system is Very much flawed.
Indeed. Also, in …
Indeed. Also, in Canada, if you can’t afford health-care (have financial problems, just lost a job, etc), then health-care is free! So in another words, unlike in America, you don’t go broke in Canada if you need care.
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The Canadian health care system as a whole, while flawed, is a very humane system.
-While certain little procedures in certain provinces can have long wait times, the overall wait times in Canada for broad procedures isn’t too bad. For instance, according to Statscan, the average wait for a non emergency surgery in 2003 was about 4 weeks
-The cost of drugs in Canada are about 1/3 of that of the US
-Canadians live about five years longer on average
-Everyone’s covered
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In Ontario, one case that comes to my mind is my grandfather had a stroke which crippled the left side of his body a few years ago. He completed his hospital stay and rehabilitation, covered mainly if not completely by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), in four months.
My own family was able to choose a very professional doctor who I still have today after nine years.
Like anything in life, it hasn’t been perfect. But overall, I’m quite satisfied.
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(cont) Therefore, from personal experience I can only really talk about Ontario.
From my experience, it’s quite good, especially compared to the US. I have many gripes about experience in that system but the worst was when I was actually rejected coverage because I have a mild social disorder. Nothing to do with my physical health at all. My father’s work would also only cover you if you went to certain HMO’s, which to this day makes me laugh whenever Americans talk about “choice”.
I’m a born Canadian …
I’m a born Canadian who lived in the United States for 5 1/2 years. I’ve lived in the Greater Toronto Area for almost 9 years now.
You must keep in mind that the Canadian health care system is really a variety of programs. The provinces issue health care plans and insurance, not Parliament. When you get a health card, it comes from your province.
There are mandatory rules set by the 1984 Canada Health Act (not for profit, minimum standards, etc). But the provinces run the system.
I am srry for you …
I am srry for you aunt but what we have is still better then america, i see long wait times but i still see more care and more treatment then you would in america.
My aunt waited 5 …
My aunt waited 5 days to get a room for her heart problem because all the rooms in the Canadian hospital were full. Just because you haven’t had problems, doesn’t mean no one else had.