As the Ontario Medical Association continues to sound the alarm over a family doctor shortage, one doctor said a move toward American-style health care is ‘happening already.’

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      5 months ago

      In our family we have gotten smart. We have the wait and hope it goes away health plan.

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        This. Everyone I talk to says, “but socialized medicine has such long wait times.” But these same fuckers avoid going to the doctor until it’s absolutely unbearable to deal with because it costs to much to find out if it’ll get better on its own. So if you’re getting symptoms of something and waiting two months anyway, how is your system better?

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          In the 58 years I’ve lived here, I have never waited more than a few hours to see a doctor, never more than a couple of days to see my doctor, and never more than a month to see a specialist.

          Im sceptical of the people claiming that “several months” is a common experience.

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    Bwahahaha. Sure take the one thing every American doctor or medical associate, every patient and worker hates. That a great idea /s

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    Wasn’t there a recent report that it was costing the province twice as much with privaye, and that one board member of private place under investigation because he was only accepting profitable patients and diverting low profit “customers” back to the public sustem

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    Socialized medicine administered by bankruptcy courts is definitely the best because it incentives not getting sick. If you can’t afford cancer, just don’t get it.

    Seriously, my wife was diagnosed and even with my reasonably good private insurance we were still out $7500 (our per individual out of pocket maximum) for her last year and this year. I paid another $1200 for my own healthcare last year. I also paid another roughly $6k in health insurance premiums. Most Americans cannot afford that. It has reduced us to living paycheck to paycheck, our emergency fund is gone.

    The U.S. and Canada should come up with a citizen exchange where disgruntled U.S. citizens swap places with Canadian morons that think this is somehow better.