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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: gg cox who wrote (7621)7/19/2009 2:21:38 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
the only people in Canada to do so are physicians.In Canada, the government has absolutely no say in who gets care or how they get it. Medical decisions are left entirely up to doctors, as they should be.

OH, BS. The provincial governments call the shots.

There are no requirements for pre-authorization whatsoever. If your family doctor says you need an MRI, you get one.

Eventually.

In the U.S., if an insurance administrator says you are not getting an MRI, you don't get one no matter what your doctor thinks — unless, of course, you have the money to cover the cost. """

I know a guy who left Calgary with a back problem because it was going to take forever to get diagnosed there. He had surgery in Houston before he would have gotten an MRI in Canada.
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