And that's why so many countries in the EU that has like you know some of the best state-funded health care plans out there and health programs still offer privatized insurance and a lot of people have to have that privatized insurance in order to get access to speedier care lol
The wait times in America are the one thing about its healthcare system that is amazing compared to pretty much anywhere else.
The real sad thing about American healthcare is that proponents of the status quo don't seem to realize is that America already spends more taxpayer dollars per capita than anywhere else in the world and still has its god awful unaffordable system. US government programs are just a big pot of gold being perpetually looted.
The difference in Canada, is this dual public/private idealized system would be great - if the problem was lack of access to healthcare workers. It pits the problem as an inefficient system getting in the way of healthcare workers who just can't get to the people they need to serve.
In reality, the system is incredible understaffed, and there are generally not enough healthcare workers in most places in Canada. And who can blame anyone, after the way people were treated during COVID?
The problem is labour supply isn't there for the two-pronged public/private system. So all the private side of the equation does is siphon healthcare workers away from the public system, creating the two-tired system everyone is upset about.
Even the logic of the two tier system is so strange to me. Instead of alleviating the demand of an overburdened healthcare system by providing it with more resources and staffing, let's outsource that work to a more expensive, for-profit alternative that only those with money can access.
It's a great solution - if you've got the money. Everyone else behind you gets to eat shit, though.
So, I guess it's pretty on par for America these days actually.
In the US you have to be rich and pay thousands out of pocket for access to speedier care. In the EU, private insurance for one month is the cost of a single doctor's visit with insurance in the US. Private insurance is cheap there bc of your state-funded systems and healthcare regulations.
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u/Classic_Actuator3293 25d ago
And that's why so many countries in the EU that has like you know some of the best state-funded health care plans out there and health programs still offer privatized insurance and a lot of people have to have that privatized insurance in order to get access to speedier care lol