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Right after we got married, my wife and I lived in Vancouver for a while. While we were there, she started having seizures and got diagnosed with epilepsy. The first time she had a seizure, it came out of the blue. We had a pretty long ambulance ride and an overnight stay in the ER. If we had been living in the US, this would have cost a couple thousand dollars maybe as much as $10k. (That is with health insurance).
While there are lots of flaws with publicly funded healthcare, that whole thing would have been really hard for us to pay for. (She was in school and I didn't have a great job.) I'm still thankful that happened to us while we were there and not a few months earlier while we were living in the states.
I would be happy with some private options to take pressure off the public system.
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I don't know how it is in your province, but in mine, past few years that idea has been surfacing more and more, and sounds like a sin less and less.
People pushing the idea allude to how our current system failed, and for people who are scared by the word "private", point to EU countries who have countries with systems having both public and private parts (and functioning in symbiosis in some way, i don't know the details myself)
Honestly, it's come to a point where even people scared of anything "private" might start being like "let's just try anything other than this because this ain't working"
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I am in Ontario. I used to live in Toronto but moved a couple hours out of the city two years ago.
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In England, I think 60 percent of residents have private supplemental insurance. National health service or NHS would collapse without private supplemental insurance.
England has a medical brain drain. The best doctors move to USA or Switzerland or Singapore 🇸🇬
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People often say health care is too important for it to be private.
Are drugs public? Prescription and over the counter
Is food production and distribution public?
Is clothing supply chain public?
Is housing public?
Is education public?
Is auto manufacturing and sale public?
So many important things are not operated by the government.
Last question: is plastic surgery covered in Canada? What about lasik surgery? Or IVF?
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