You seem to think that our health care pays for everything, it doesn't. It does pay for basic health care, but may not include a family doctor, or many services, depending on where you live, and what they choose to make available. Treatments that are available in Buffalo may not be available in Canada.
The wait for an MRI for a hockey player may be 3 hours, but for a poor person 6 months. If you have cataracts, they are improving service so the wait is down from 2 years to 6 or 7 months, so you may not be able to see for a few months, but well no one has everything. That is what I am trying to tell you, we have universal health care, but they are steadily changing it to reduce the number of services they cover. Some tests used to be covered and now are not. Skin growths used to be covered, now if they are disfiguring but not fatal they are not covered, if they are malignant they are. Universal has so many different meanings. If you have an autistic child care is available, but only for certain ages, and the child is often past the age at which he or she qualifies, before his turn shows up. You are entitled to an MRI or a catscan, but often the waiting lists are months long. If you can afford it you go to the states and get one, if you are poor you just wait. If you have cancer, 6 months is a long time.
If you need radiation the waits are sometimes long, and the costs of travel are yours to bear unless you can find a charity to take you. Sometimes your treatment is 40 miles away. But if you can get there it is excellent treatment. |
