Community | July 22, 2009 | 3 comments

Survey: Canadians Like Their Health Care

source: http://www.ourfuture.org/news-headline/2009073022/survey-canadians-their-health-care

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New Ipsos-McClatchy online polls find that patients in Canada, despite some grumbles about waiting times, are much more likely to say that they have access to all the health care services they need at costs they can afford, by a margin of 65 to 49 percent. Looked at another way, 65 percent of Canadians said they had access to all the health care services they needed at costs they could afford; 49 percent of Americans felt the same way. That difference probably reflects the costs of health care: Patients pay nothing at doctors' offices in Canada. It also helps explain the fact that Americans see health care differently based on their incomes, while Canadians see it roughly the same regardless of what they earn.That split verdict comes as President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress are proposing several plans to cover the uninsured and to offer a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurance companies.
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Why can't Americans have what the Canadians have?
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3 comments // Survey: Canadians Like Their Health Care

  • couldntfindausername
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      couldntfindausername  

    • So, basically, this just shows yet again that the only people who have a problem with socialised healthcare delivery are those pushing a very particular political agenda [and a peculiarly American version of that agenda at that - the right in this part of the world are thoroughly behind healthcare-for-all].

    • 2 years ago
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  • kewal91
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      kewal91  

    • it also covers me when i am studying in the america... its literally like a credit card...true that.. i still have to pay minimal income taxes for canada.. but its till nice.. i been injured majorly 3 times when i lived there.. and i was taken care of in less than 30 mins at the queensway hospital in Mississauga.... and i am totally fine...

      But on the flip side.. my freinds' Dad had to get a CAT scan.. and they told him that he'd have to wait till February (it was december) to get it because it wasnt needed immidiately enough...

      So anything that is short-term.. it works well.. if not.. you maybe in trouble... and i would think that most cases in the hospital are short term(which is why its at 65% and not higher like i expected)

      ..

    • 2 years ago
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